Posted on 03/04/2007 5:19:08 PM PST by Coleus
A 23-year-old man, who was paralysed from below the waist, is now able to walk after the first successful stem cell therapy in India for spinal cord injuries was conducted at a hospital here. According to Dr J.S. Rajkumar, chairman, Lifeline Hospitals, the young man, Akbar Ali, suffered serious injuries in his spinal cord when he fell from the fourth floor of a building last October. He was then working at a construction site in Abu Dhabi.
Though he underwent a surgery to stabilise his spinal cord, it was not successful. After he returned to India a month later, he lost sensation in his legs and was paralysed below the waist. He could not control his urine and bowel movements and was thus admitted to Lifeline Hospitals. The doctors there diagnosed him as a patient for autologous stem cell therapy wherein the stem cells from the patient's body are taken and used at the injured spot.
The technology, which is available at the hospital in collaboration from the Nichi-In Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Japan, was applied to Ali’s body. Nearly 100 ml of his bone marrow was removed, harvested and isolated before the stem cells were injected near the injured spot in his spinal cord. The stem cells emit trophic factors, which enable neurons and vessels to grow; a part of them becomes integral to the region, another component becomes part of the growing nerves.
Two months into the therapy, Ali has now regained 50 per cent sensation below his waist. He can control his urine for up to two hours and can also walk. Lifeline doctors said this treatment could be used for paraplegics, but usually worked better on younger people with more recent injuries. The hospital is presently examining the use of this therapy in treating cardiac problems, liver failure, diabetes, multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease.
Of the various sources of stem cells, the autologous stem cell therapy was used by the hospital as there was no risk of rejection nor was there any concern of medical ethics. Doctors say that preserving stem cells is a kind of bio-insurance for an entire family as the stem cells could help in the treatment of the person’s siblings, parents and even grandparents. While preserved cord blood stem cells are a perfect match for the child from whose umbilical cord it was collected, there is only a 25 per cent chance of it being a perfect match for other family members.
As research continues to progress, more and more liberal arguments are thrown out the window. I wish this young man luck and long life with his recovery.
This could change many peoples lives....
You can be sure if embryonic stem cells were involved, the word embryonic would be in the headline and lead paragraph. When it is not there, it is an attempt to have people interpret it as if embryonic stem cells were involved. The MSM is about propaganda, not information.
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Fetal cells were not used. They took the stem cells from the patient's own body.
No baby was murdered. The patient walks again.
I'd say that this is a good thing.
Check and Mate. I only hope it can be utilized in more severe cases someday.
Sorry, it won't. It should, but it won't. Doesn't fit the agenda. The DemocRATs, liberals and commies need more and more to justify their sacrament of abortion, and so they will always search for any excuse they can find to murder others of their choosing.
I saw a program on tv that followed a quad to China for his stem cell surgery.
In the story many others have flocked to China includng kids w/parents hoping to cure their Cerebral Palsy (as my son who has lived with for 27yrs).
Well the story ended exposing a huge fraud.
Yes the stem cell surgery was done but there was no significant improvements just a whole lot of dissapointed people.
So number one, my son will not use fetal stem cells for his own health care and two I have to see these cases with my own eyes and lots of them before I get any hopes of a cure.
Besides 27yrs later we have put our hope into eternal life.
The odds are better IMO.
This is absolutely fantastic news, though. What a blessing for these people.
Once again... as in many cases... Adult Stem Cells work.
No rejection, no moral issues.
Thanks Coleus. I went to see Fr. Tad in Manhattan yesterday. He has a new video, Cutting through the spin on Stem Cells. Excellent. NCBC has it.
You don't talk about the level of your son's involvement, but I suspect it's more involved than my daughter's. Prayers for you and yours. I haven't walked your path, but have been close enough to know it's tough.
Do me a favor. Send me links of all the cures/improvements you have, so I can take them to Albany for Life Lobby Day next week. Could you ping your list as well to send what they have?
Same reason they don't put the (D) after Democrats' names when they get into legal trouble.
There was a call in to one of EWTN radio shows the other day.
Question: If at conception a life begins and God gives that life a soul....how does a soul get into a petri dish when it is done by man?
Answer: Well God did not orchrestrate that conception.
And I believe they went on to say a baby has not been conceived in a dish yet, I am not sure what I heard on that venue.
Close to the Q and A don't quote my memory.
It was a simple answer as in oh yeah true.
It went on and I didn't get the whole answer but the Answer guys also were discussing that scientists are now try to zap life with an electrical current into the sperm and egg to get it to copy Gods creation.
Then the caller asked if the zapped conception would have a soul?
The answer guys said hasn't been successful so no one knows and again only God can create a human body complete with a soul.
Or something to that.
Like I said I only had one ear listening as I was working.
"I think that should drive a stake through the heart of fetal stem cell research."
Stakes through the heart is vampires. Can't say for sue what it takes to kill demons?
Nice choice of metaphor, but the Moloch of Autonomy, to whom the human sacrifices of abortion are offered is, I fear, a bit more resiliant than a vampire.
We've had some 80 different disorders with adult stem cell therapies go to clinical trial, we had other lame people walk on the basis of autodonation adult stem cell therapy, but still the high priest(esse)s of the Cult(ure) of Death insist that embryonic stem cells are the only ones with 'real potential', and still their acolytes in the press and fools among the people heed their claims.
Adult stem cells , will wonders never cease.
Freep Mail call for Mr Kimball.
Awesome! Soon there will be idiots here denouncing stems cells as killing babies! /sar
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