Kat's allogeneic stem cell transplant Kat describes what it was like to have an allogeneic stem cell transplant. By: Lymphoma Association … Continue reading →

You could be the match and save someone's life For hundreds of patients each year, their only hope for survival is a bone marrow or stem cell transplant. By: KiviTV … Continue reading →

Stem Cell Transplant for Spastic Cerebral Palsy 3 years old boy improves after stem cell transplant for spastic cerebral palsy Stem Cell Transplant done at Dr Alok Sharma NeuroGen Brain and Spine Institute... By: Neurogen Brain and Spine Institute … Continue reading →

CHICAGO (CBS) More than four years after she was close to dying from leukemia, an 8-year-old girl from Mount Prospect is healthy again, and will meet the German man who helped save her life by supplying a stem cell donation. Sabrina Chahir was diagnosed with leukemia in 2009, and 80 percent of her blood was filled with cancer cells. To survive, she needed a stem cell/bone marrow transplant, but finding a donor was going to be very difficult. At the beginning, it was we didnt know if we were able to find one, because Sabrina is half Arabic and half Hispanic, and that is not a usual combination, Sabrinas mother, Natalia Wehr said. Sabrinas DNA match turned out to be 30-year-old Maximilian Eule, a German supermarket manager living in Austria. He quickly agreed to donate For me, I was close to crying, because it was like a little girl who was almost close to dying, and has no chance without my blood, he said. You give the girl another chance to stay alive. Sabrinas mother said, thanks to Eules bone marrow donation, her daughter is healthy again, and like any other 2nd grade girl. This whole thing is like a … Continue reading →