translated from Spanish: HIV patient in remission without medication is not the ultimate cure but gives hope

scientific co nsideran a man of London that takes a year and a half in remission of HIV is the second patient in the world with the virus curing twelve years after the first, according to U.S. media.
HIV from the “London patient”, who remains anonymous, began their referral as a result of a bone marrow transplant aimed at treating cancer who also suffered.
The case is nearly identical to the of Timothy Brown, known in medical circles as the “Berlin patient”. This carrier was the first patient declared cured of HIV, in 2007.
Dysfunctional CCR5 gene in both cases bone identification cards they received came from donors with a dysfunctional CCR5 gene. Other HIV patients who received transplants of certificates with the functional CCR5 gene, experienced improvement and were months without medication, but the virus came back.
The healing of this second patient would be of vital importance. This allows stating that the “Berlin patient” would not be an isolated case.
“Nobody 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? It was not clear that it could happen again”, the head of infectious diseases of the Hostital Brigham and Women’s in Boston, Daniel Kuritzkes told The Washington Post.
“Patient of London” Although it is unlikely that transplants of bone marrow as HIV treatment are established by the risk that truck, yes could use similar immune cells, according to experts.
“This will motivate people the healing is not a dream.” It is attainable”, said to The New York Times Dr. Annemarie Wensing, virologist at the University Medical Center Utrecht (Netherlands).
Speaking to the New York journal, the patient”of London” was considered “surreal” and “overwhelming” that a single transplant has been able to cure cancer and HIV.
“I feel a sense of responsibility to help physicians understand how it happened so they can develop the science,” he said. “I never believed – he said – that there would be a cure in my lifetime”.
“Berlin patient” the main conclusion of the study, said in a press conference the Spanish Javier Martinez-Picado, co-author of the text, is that the “Berlin patient was not simply an anecdote and is possible to get a full remission of the virus”.
However, stressed that “the stem cell transplant is a procedure risk high and only doctor recommended to treat patients who suffer from a haematological disease that can not be treated with other therapies”.
In addition, it said that “withdrawal from single antiretroviral treatment can be medical decision and with an exhaustive monitoring of evolution”.
“High risk what a stem cell transplant – explained Martinez-Picado-, is added the difficulty of finding donors with the CCR5 mutation in their cells, only 1% of people in Europe have it and are concentrated in the countries of the North, so it is not the cure” “ultimate virus but brings much hope”.

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