Archive for March, 2010
10-Year-Old Boy’s Windpipe Rebuilded by Stem Cell Surgery
A major breakthrough takes place in the field of medical history especially stem cell field when a 10 years old boy had gone through a trachea surgery successfully through stem cell surgery. All the credit goes to the British and Italian surgeons at the great Ormond street hospital for children who got this achievement after nearly nine hour long surgery. The experts took the bone marrow stem cells of the boy, injected them into a windpipe of donor and implanted the boy with the windpipe strippe... Readmore
Cerebral Palsy Patient Still Improving in Germany
Three year-old Sophia Chang from Woodland Hills, California, is continuing to improve following her second stem cell treatment since March 2008 for cerebral palsy at the XCell-Center in Dusseldorf, Germany. Sophia suffers from ataxic cerebral palsy, a condition that was brought due to a low fetal heart rate. The cause of her low heart rate remains a mystery. Her greatest difficulties are motor planning and execution – getting her body to do what she wants it to do. “…We found out about XCe... Readmore
Blindness, deafness or cerebral palsy are some of the complications can be avoided
The protein analysis of the umbilical cord may allow the detection of early neonatal sepsis – a serious infection that affects about 1% of newborns, causing the deaths of close to 50%. The conclusion is a group of researchers from the Medical School of Yale, the United States of America, which identified a number of proteins in the umbilical cord that are associated with this infection. From the analysis of these proteins the U.S. experts have discovered biomarkers that can provide key infor... Readmore
Cord blood donated is matched to cancer patient
Umbilical cord blood donated by a Yakima Valley mom has been matched to a 46-year old man suffering from leukemia, Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital said today. The match is the first since Memorial started collecting cord blood through the Puget Sound Blood Center for the National Cord Blood Inventory in 2008. Cord blood collected from a mother following delivery contains valuable stem cells. When matched to a donor with a similar genetic code, stem cells can replace blood cells in the bone m... Readmore
STEM CELL TRANSPLANT STILL DEFEATS HIV..
Add one more name to the ever growing list of diseases that have been defeated by stem cell treatments: HIV. That’s right, a stem cell transplant performed in Germany has unexpectedly removed all signs of HIV from a 42 year old American patient. The unnamed white male was treated two years ago for Leukemia with a dose of donor stem cells and his HIV RNA count has dropped to zero and remained there since. While the treatment was for Leukemia, had selected the stem cell donor for his HIV resista... Readmore
Cord blood stem cell for incurable diseases
An internationally known pioneer in using umbilical cord stem cells will research novel cerebral palsy treatments thanks to a $10.2 million gift to Duke University. Kurtzberg has used umbilical cord cells to treat cancer and genetic disorders in children. In many cases, infusions of cord blood have reversed and even cured otherwise fatal disorders. Kurtzberg has recently begun using the once-discarded material in hopes it can also mend brain damage in children diagnosed with cerebral palsy. R... Readmore
BONE STEM CELLS CAN BE USED FOR DAMAGED HIP
Bone stem cells could in future be used instead of bone from donors as part of an innovative new hip replacement treatment, according to scientists at the University of Southampton. A team from the University’s School of Medicine believe that introducing a patient’s own skeletal stem cells into the hip joint during bone grafting would encourage more successful regrowth and repair. The grafting technique is used to repair the thigh bone and joint during replacement (known as ‘revision’) h... Readmore
STEM CELL USED TO RE-BUILT 10-YRS OLD BRITISH BOY WINDPIPE
A British boy, suffering from Long Segment Congenital Tracheal Stenosis, a disorder where patients are born with narrow wind pipes, has received path breaking stem cell surgery. British and Italian doctors rebuild the windpipe of the boy with stem cells developed within his own body. The procedure was performed on Monday and it lasted approximately 9 hours. The boy was operated upon at the Great Ormond Street children’s hospital. Doctors embedded a donor trachea into the boy’s body. The ... Readmore
