According to a press release from the university hospitals of Marseille, the 60 year old womansuffering from HIV (human immunodeficiency virus), was cared for by the Sainte-Marguerite Hospital in Marseille for an allogeneic bone marrow transplant. Three years after her operation and several tests, doctors discovered that she would be potentially curedseveral years after his diagnosis.
A woman diagnosed in 1999
According to information provided by the hospital, the patient was diagnosed with HIV in 1999 and “immediately treated with antiretrovirals”. “It was only from 2010 that its treatment was truly effective, with the viral load becoming “ undetectable “, that is to say controlled by the treatment”, we can read.
An allogeneic bone marrow transplant
Ten years later, in February 2020, she was treated at the public hospitals of Marseille following the diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia, blood cancer attacking the spinal cord. A few months later, in July, she benefited from a allogeneic bone marrow transplant. In the press release, the doctors explain that this donor “presented a rare genetic mutation” (Delta 32) on the CCR5 gene. “The few people in the world who have this genetic mutation on the two alleles of embarrassed…
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