Stem Cells Saved My Life
How to be Next
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Stem Cell clinical trials are being conducted to cure diseases of most parts of the body. The following are presented as examples of trials currently under way. Your research will reveal many more that are applicable to your own condition.
Heart
Stem cells have been applied in at least two different heart procedures. The first procedure is growing new arteries to rebuild heart muscle by providing much needed blood to damaged areas of the heart muscle. The adult stem cell type used in this procedure is called the CD34 positive cell. There is also some speculation that this same cell induces actual growth of new muscle, but this process is not yet well understood. Another type of adult stem cell, the mesenchymal cell, is utilized to grow muscle and other tissue. Repair of heart muscle by mesenchymal stem cells appears to be most effective if treatment is given within 10 days of a heart attack (myocardial infarction).
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Discussions of stem cell therapies for many other diseases follow.
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Stem cells and stem cell therapy! Many believe that stem cell therapy may lie somewhere in the future. That is not the case, and I am living proof that stem cell therapies are already available. They are repairing hearts, rebuilding livers, assisting in the cure of cancer and a multitude of other diseases. Popular broadcast and print media led me to believe that stem cell therapy is a long way off, held back by presidential order and political factions. I am one of the lucky ones. I found my way into a stem cell clinical trial that repaired my badly damaged heart and restored my life after I had come too close to death for comfort. There were only 24 of us in the Phase I stem cell clinical trial.
We had all come for the same purpose; to ease the frightening pain in our chests and to try to stay alive. We were just a few of the tens of millions of people with similar problems who would ultimately benefit if the therapy under test proved to be successful. All 24 patients were very lucky to be selected for the pioneering stem cell clinical trial. In current medical practice, patients with such severe heart disease suffer episodes of severe heart pain (angina) and die slow deaths from congestive heart failure, their lungs filling with blood that their weakened hearts could not pump out to their bodies.
We no longer face this grim prospect because of the amazing capabilities of stem cells. Uniquely, they can multiply themselves into large numbers and change themselves into any type of cells needed by the body, including brain cells, muscle tissue, and liver and kidney tissue.
About the Author
The author was a senior research scientist for a major aerospace company and a researcher of rare earth minerals. He is an engineering graduate of The Pennsylvania State University. With the advent of his own illness, he turned his attention to the investigation of stem cell therapies. His study led him to therapies using stem cells for many serious illnesses. He sincerely hopes that the information presented will aid you, or a loved one, as it has him.