Category Archives: Stem Cell Transplant

April 2014 - home right after my stem cell transplant. I was very weak recovering from the hospital. Gavin. By: Chris Waters … Continue reading →

Stem Cell Transplant for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder 4 years old boy able to wear cloths after undergoing Stem Cell Transplant for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder Stem Cell Transplant for Autism Spectrum... By: Neurogen Brain and Spine Institute … Continue reading →

Mt. Prospect girl meets her German stem cell donor Eight-year-old leukemia survivor Sabrina Chahir got to meet the 30-year-old German citizen to whom she owes her life. During a meeting last night at a Schaumburg restaurant, Sabrina got to thank Maximilian Eule, who donated stem cells that led to her being cancer-free today. "It was, for me, an awesome feeling," Eule said of the news that he was a match for someone in America. Full story. Kenneth VanSickle, the 55-year-old man who jumped from the third floor of a burning condo complex in Rolling Meadows Wednesday night, died as a result of the multiple injuries he suffered in the fall, the Cook County medical examiner's office said yesterday. Officials say it may be another day or so before residents of the building on the 5200 block of Carriageway Drive are allowed back in to gather their belongings. It could be next week before a cause of the blaze is known, authorities said. Full story. A person was struck and killed by an outbound Metra train Thursday night between the Round Lake and Long Lake stations, authorities said. The unidentified victim was struck just before 6 p.m. near the intersection of … Continue reading →

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

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 →

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 →

Wanted to put 'cell traders' in prison for up to six years (ANSA) - Rome, March 4 - The New Center Right (NCD) party tried to roll back anonymous donor fertilization and stem cell therapy - both of which are legal in Italy but opposed by the Catholic Church - by tacking an amendment onto an organ transplant bill now being voted on the Senate floor, Left Ecology Freedom (SEL) whip Loredana De Petris said Wednesday. "(NCD Senate whip Renato) Schifani asked for a suspension of debate on the bill to give MPs more time to consider their amendment," De Petris said. "It would have made trading in stem cells punishable with up to six years in prison,and trading in cells and tissues from a living donor" punishable with 1-6 years in prison and a 25-250,000 euro fine. "It's shameful how they tried to insert anonymous donor fertilization into a bill on organ trafficking," De Petris said. See the article here: NCD 'tried to roll back anonymous donor fertilization' … Continue reading →

However, the findings reveal striking variations between countries and regions in the use of this lifesaving procedure and high unmet need due to a chronic shortage of resources and donors that is putting lives at risk. HSCT (also known as blood and marrow transplant) is most often used to treat diseases of the blood and several types of cancer such as multiple myeloma or leukemia. For many people with these diseases the only possibility of a cure is to have a HSCT. The procedure provides healthy cells from either the patient (autologous transplantation) or from a healthy donor (allogeneic transplantation) to replace those lost to disease or chemotherapy. Using data collected by the Worldwide Network for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (WBMT), Professor Dietger Niederwieser from the University Hospital Leipzig in Germany and international colleagues, systematically analysed the growth of HSCT and changes in its use in 194 WHO member countries since the first transplant in 1957. They also examined the link between macroeconomic factors (eg, gross national income and health care expenditure) and transplant frequencies per 10 million inhabitants in each country. Although only a small number of centres had performed about 10000 transplants by 1985, this had risen to … Continue reading →

Since the first experimental bone marrow transplant over 50 years ago, more than one million hematopoietic stem cell transplantations (HSCT) have been performed in 75 countries, according to new research charting the remarkable growth in the worldwide use of HSCT, published in The Lancet Haematology journal. However, the findings reveal striking variations between countries and regions in the use of this lifesaving procedure and high unmet need due to a chronic shortage of resources and donors that is putting lives at risk. HSCT (also known as blood and marrow transplant) is most often used to treat diseases of the blood and several types of cancer such as multiple myeloma or leukaemia. For many people with these diseases the only possibility of a cure is to have a HSCT. The procedure provides healthy cells from either the patient (autologous transplantation) or from a healthy donor (allogeneic transplantation) to replace those lost to disease or chemotherapy. Using data collected by the Worldwide Network for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (WBMT), Professor Dietger Niederwieser from the University Hospital Leipzig in Germany and international colleagues, systematically analysed the growth of HSCT and changes in its use in 194 WHO member countries since the first transplant … Continue reading →