Deans' stroke musings: PREGNANT women could hold the key to providing hope for stroke patients, following a breakthrough by Australian researchers.

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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.

Monday, March 5, 2018

PREGNANT women could hold the key to providing hope for stroke patients, following a breakthrough by Australian researchers.

Your doctor needs to followup this research and bring it into their hospital. Not following up is extreme incompetency.
https://www.thesenior.com.au/health/new-hope-for-stroke-patients-2/

In a world first, scientists at Melbourne's La Trobe University have developed a groundbreaking treatment for stroke using discarded amniotic cells from pregnant women.

The teams found that injecting the stem cells - which line the amniotic sac during pregnancy and are discarded after birth - into stroke patients can significantly reduce brain injury and aid recovery.

Stroke is one of Australia's biggest killers and a leading cause of disability. Treatments for stroke are time critical and currently only a limited number of Australians have access to them.

The seven-year research project, led by La Trobe's Professor Chris Sobey and researchers from Monash University and Monash Health, found when human amnion epithelial cells were injected 90 minutes after stroke, the cells quickly homed in on the affected area of the brain, greatly reducing inflammation and nerve cell death.

"But what is particularly exciting about these new findings is that when the amniotic cells were administered as late as one or three days after stroke, there was accelerated healing and long term functional recovery was still greatly improved," Professor Sobey said.

Some of the most recent advancements in ischemic stroke treatment - strokes caused by a clot - can only be delivered within the first few hours of a stroke.

Professor Sobey said the reason this particular cell therapy was effective is because the cells are abundant, they are discarded after birth and don't require any treatment before being used.

"They already contain natural immune-suppressants, which means the patient's body won't reject them and they don't form tumours - both issues with other forms of cell therapy."

The first in-human trial in acute stroke patients will start soon, led by researchers at Monash Health and Monash University.