translated from Spanish: Doctors would have cured a patient with HIV

a miraculous story took place in London and caused repercussions around the world: for the second time in history, the HIV, the cause of AIDS virus could send in a patient. To do this, the man received a bone marrow transplant with the functional CCR5 gene, that it was necessary to treat their cancer, as it suffered from Hodgkin’s lymphoma from 2012. Thus the journal Nature announced it, and it was confirmed by the doctors who participated in the process. Despite talk of a possible “cure”, still the panciente must follow treatment. The incident took place twelve years after the first, starring the American Timothy Brown, known as the “Berlin patient”, since he contracted the virus while in Germany. After cure of disease, in 2012 Brown announced the creation of the Timothy Ray Brown Foundation in Washington, designed to fight against HIV/AIDS.

Ravindra Gupta, who presented the findings | Photo: Gulf News as common denominator, both were subjected to the same transplant; However, doctors still aren’t sure of the effectiveness of this treatment, since many patients who went through the same procedure showed improvements but failed to remove the virus.” No one doubted the veracity of the ‘Berlin patient’, but was a single patient. And which of the many things that made him contributed to the apparent cure? Was not clear that it could happen again”, said Daniel Kuritzkes professional dialogue with The Washington Post.Lo is true that for the moment, the recent case represents a breakthrough in terms of global medicine:”to achieve remission in a second patient using a similar method, we showed that the first case was not an anomaly”, said Ravindra Gupta, Professor of the University of Cambridge qque presented the findings. In this note:

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