Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, August 8, 2013

UNMC Participating in National Study Using Stem Cells to Treat Stroke

This is very positive but only if the study has been designed correctly. And a great stroke association would take care of that.
Are they tracking the stem cells to even see if they make it thru the blood brain barrier and end up in the expected position? How long do they survive? Did a blood supply feed them nutrients?
http://www.kios.org/post/unmc-participating-national-study-using-stem-cells-treat-stroke
UNMC’s stroke center is one of 11 centers that is part of a novel national study that will use adult stem cells to treat stroke patients.

Dr. Pierre Fayad, Director of the UNMC Stroke Center, is the principal investigator for UNMC’s part of the study.
Dr. Fayad says these stem cells have been extracted from normal, healthy donors.
He says the cells are isolated, cultured and multiplied using a specialized method.
Afterward, Dr. Fayad says the cells are packaged, frozen and sent to the various sites that are part of the study.
He says once a potential patient is identified, the cells are mixed with special solution and given to the patient through the vein.
"The purpose is to try to see, first of all how, well tolerated they are and whether they achieve the goal of decreasing the inflammation within the area of the stroke and therefore preventing the area of the stroke to be larger than it should be.”
Dr. Fayad says the treatment will be administered to patients within 36 hours after they have a stroke.
UNMC will enroll between 6-10 patients in the study over an 18 month period.
Dr. Fayad says study participants will be followed for one year.

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