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New Guts – Michigan Man Has Intestine Transplant [22Sep10]
Sep 23rd
Amplify’d from www.clickondetroit.com
Doctors are Henry Ford Hospital have performed the first intestine transplant in Michigan.
The recipient, Port Austin resident Brent Patterson, under went the 11-hour surgery on Aug. 21 and 22.
Patterson survived a kidney transplant five years ago and had been waiting for an intestinal transplant since April, after Crohn’s disease had caused damage to his bowel, stomach and pancreas.
Watch: 1st Intestine Transplant Performed In Michigan
Patterson’s doctors said he has months of recovery ahead of him.Read more at www.clickondetroit.com
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Stem Cell Treatment – For #Crohns Disease [21Feb09]
Aug 15th
No more surgery, no more drugs. Stem cell treatment could be a last ditch effort for patients who have nearly had all life squeezed out of them due to this disease and its unfavorable medical treatments.
Amplify’d from www.medicalnewstoday.com
Cellular therapy with stem cells is revolutionizing the focus of treatment of many serious diseases. Replacing the cells of damaged tissue with other new cells from the same patient is already a reality. This is the basis of cellular therapy and regenerative medicine, the latest great advance in biomedicine. In this line, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona is leading the world in the application of an innovative cellular therapy that uses stem cells to treat Crohn’s disease, a chronic genetic disease that affects 1% of the population in Spain and which has considerable impact on the quality of life of the patients.
The procedure is based on an autologous bone-marrow transplant (when patients receive a transplant of their own stem cells) and now constitutes a treatment option to cure an intestinal disease that sometimes does not successfully respond to drugs and requires highly complex surgery that does not provide a cure.
the technique has been tested with excellent results: in an average follow-up period of 6 years, 80% of transplant patients are in a phase of total remission of the disease and the remaining 20% have shown considerable improvement following the transplant, and are now responding favorably to drugs.Read more at www.medicalnewstoday.com
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