Interesting. I read about a lady in Texas that had something like this done and she had a extraordinary recovery. I’d like to read more about these adult stem cell treatments.
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Adult Human Neural Stem Cell Therapy Successful In Treating Spinal Cord Injury
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050920074831.htm
I found that one interesting.
Dead Heart Tissue From Heart Attack, Is Repaired
In the groundbreaking new book, Miracle Stem Cell Heart Repair author/researcher Christian Wilde reports on the ongoing successful FDA trials for heart repair.
Patients who have survived 4 and even 5 prior heart attacks saw their ejection fraction (measurement of cardiac output) rise dramatically following the one time minimally invasive procedure and were able to resume their normal activities.
The first patient in the US to undergo the procedure shares his story of having his first of four heart attacks at age 34. Here is the best hope and promise for 22M dying of heart failure WW with 5M in the US. In this procedure, cells from the patient’s own thigh muscle or bone marrow are harvested, multiplied in laboratory and injected back into the patient’s damaged heart tissue.
In Miracle Stem Cell Heart Repair directors of cardiovascular cell based therapy from Columbia University, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Minneapolis Heart Institute, St. Elizabeth’s Hospital/Tufts University School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Cedars Sinai Medical Center and Arizona Heart Institute explain the science in everyday language to bring hope of adult stem cells therapy in helping millions who have had heart attacks over the past decades.
One patient relating his personal story shares what his own cardiologist told him;: “With 75% of your heart barely functioning, you should be dead today.” This same patient was walking a mile a day 8 weeks later.
Spinal Injury: During the 14 months of research for Miracle Stem Cell Heart Repair, Wilde’s emphasis and concentration was on the miracles happening with heart repair however he became aware of the thousands of patients suffering from more than 70 different catastrophic diseases who were receiving benefit and healing from other forms of adult stem cell therapies.
He writes about a doctor in Europe who had performed (by August 2006) more than 28 complete spinal injury stem cell transplants in quadriplegic and paraplegic patients.
After undergoing the cell procedure these patients are reportedly beginning to walk. In the procedure the patient’s own stem cells are harvested from the olfactory sinus bulb (as shown in the book). One patient in the book, (a complete injury quadriplegic case) had according to MRI post implant evaluation, shown 70% spinal tissue repair.
This patient continued to improve and walked 1,400 steps by mid 2006, and is gaining strength daily. What concerns the author is that the public has not been made aware of these miracles or the 300 stem cell trials currently in progress for more than 70 different catastrophic diseases including MS, Parkinson’s, SLE Lupus, breast, ovarian, testicular and liver and even brain cancer.
While it had earlier been thought that adult stem cells ould not enter the brain as neurons in treating neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s, MS, ALS and spinal injury that barrier has now been crossed according to an earlier announcement from Johns Hopkins.
A patient was treated at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles CA for Parkinson’s disease with his own stem cells 5 years ago. He reportedly was able to resume his work symptom free his symptoms.
A female patient from Hawaii reportedly has recovered from Parkinson’s after adult stem cells were used in a procedure using retinal pigment epithelial cells’ (hRPE) the procedure was performed in Beijing China.
A doctor in Cincinnati, Ohio has taken stem cells from a living relative and after injecting them into a young man’s cornea brought him sight after 22 years of total blindness.
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