Category Archives: Stem Cell Injections

by JANET ST. JAMES WFAA Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:15 PM Updated yesterday at 5:24 PM DALLAS Six weeks ago, 64-year-old Larry Rayes could only walk a few steps without resting. "I could only walk about 20 yards and I got very lightheaded, very dizzy," Rayes said. Rayes suffers from congestive heart failure, a condition caused by a heart so weak it can't effectively pump blood through his body. He needs a heart transplant, but until he gets one, Rayes is part of an experiment to see if his heart can heal itself. In May, at the same time doctors implanted a heart pump in Rayes' chest, his weakened heart also received a series of 20 stem cell injections. "We're using these stem cells to regenerate the muscle of the heart, so that their hearts can beat more effectively," explained cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Todd Dewey. See the article here: North Texas man among first to try stem cells for heart failure … Continue reading →

Cardiac cellular therapies are undergoing global clinical trials with "encouraging early results" and these economical options will soon be available in India which could bring relief to patients who cannot afford the currently available expensive surgical treatments, says Indian American cardiac surgeon Dr Mukesh Hariawala. Delivering a special invited plenary lecture on the "Novel Cellular Therapies for Heart Disease" at the recently concluded Healthcare India 2012 convention in New Delhi, the renowned cardiac surgeon asserted that the new developments in cardiac cellular therapies would bring down the alarming healthcare costs globally. Dr Hariawala is internationally acclaimed as a pioneer of cardiovascular surgical techniques using Therapeutic Angiogenesis. He said Therapeutic Angiogenesis is a fast emerging science of stimulating growth of new blood vessels in the heart which acts as natural bypasses to areas lacking in blood supply. Dr Hariawala demonstrated angiogenesis along with bypass surgery, lasers and stem cell injections as a novel "Combo Therapy." Like us on Facebook The laser energy acts by creating channels in the diseased heart muscle which also triggers Angiogenesis. Stem cells are then injected directly into coronary arteries feeding the diseased territory or in the stimulated lasered muscle during the open heart surgery. This option … Continue reading →

Career saved: Cronulla Shark Anthony Tupou. Picture: Gregg Porteous Source: The Daily Telegraph A "MIRACLE" cutting-edge stem cell operation could have saved Sharks forward Anthony Tupou's career. It sounds like something from the future, but it has the potential to transform the careers of countless NRL players right now. Former Aussie Test second-rower Tupou became one of the first NRL players to undergo the experimental Regeneus HiQ cell procedure in October and the 28-year-old is now feeling fitter than he has in three years. Play The Telegraph Sportsbet.com.au Supercoach 2012 The procedure involves stem cells being extracted from fat tissue around the belly button or back before it is injected into a damaged joint or tissue. The procedure accelerates the regeneration of damaged cartilage and can takes just 3-4 hours. With Tupou off contract at the end of this season, he knows only too well the procedure has likely saved him from rugby league's scrap heap. So severe were the recurring problems in his right knee, Tupou was unable to train at all some weeks because of the pain and swelling. Play Kennards Hire NRL Tipping 2012    As Sharks coach Shane Flanagan said: "He was headed for retirement. There … Continue reading →

When a piece of muscle in a person’s heart dies from lack of blood flow, it scars over and is lost.  But a team of researchers from the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles has proven that those muscles may not necessarily be gone forever. In a ground-breaking study that may change how heart attacks are treated, Dr. Eduardo Marban and his team used stem cells to re-grow damaged heart muscle.  In the 17 patients who received the therapy, Marban measured an average 50 percent reduction in the size of the scar tissue “One of the holy grails in medicine has been the use of medicine to achieve regeneration,” Marban said.  “Patients that were treated not only experienced shrinkage of their scars, but also new growth of their heart muscle, which is very exciting.” The stem cells were not derived from embryos, but instead were developed from the patients’ own hearts.  Marban’s team inserted a catheter into the diseased hearts and took a small biopsy of muscle.  In the laboratory, the tissue was manipulated into producing stem cells.  After a few weeks of marinating in culture, researchers had enough stem cells to re-inject them into the patients’ hearts.  Over the … Continue reading →

http://www.arthritistreatmentcenter.com Stem cells effective in healing damage from heart attacks. Krystal Phend reported in Medpage Today that a recent study published in Circulation Research showed autologous stem cell injections long after a heart attack can help enlarged hearts recover in size and function. Researchers reported that the "treatment showed improvements in cardiac chamber dimensions and contractility through the end of one year of follow-up See the article here: Stem Cells Heal Heart Attack Damage. - Video … Continue reading →

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Joey hurt his shoulder over 10 years ago while playing football. After two shoulder surgeries he visited Jacksonville Anti-Aging Institute and received two stem cell injections. See the original post: Stem Cell Therapy - Alternative to Shoulder Surgery - Video … Continue reading →

Mary Vallo, a student at Wesleyan University, studies temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) with her faculty advisor, Jan Naegele, professor of neuroscience and behavior, professor of biology. Original post: Mary Vallo '13 on Epilepsy Research … Continue reading →