Deans' stroke musings: Use of stem cells could help reverse brain damage from stroke

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.

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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.

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Use of stem cells could help reverse brain damage from stroke

I bet your doctor didn't tell you about signing up for this research trial, probably didn't even know about it.

Use of stem cells could help reverse brain damage from stroke

It can happen in an instant. A stroke can leave a person debilitated and dependent on others.
While some clinical trials are focusing on extending the treatment window, the time patients can receive life-saving drugs, researchers are now also using stem cells to repair the damage to patients' brains.
Julian Fowles was a busy entertainment lawyer who loved to dance.
Fowles says, "My wife just loves to salsa."
But the music stopped when Fowles had a stroke about five years ago.
Fowles continues, "I lost use of my legs and left arm, my face fell."
Experts say the effects of a stroke can be reversed if the patient gets to the hospital within a 24 hour window. Julian didn't seek help till the next day.
Dr. Dileep Yavagal, Dir. of Interventional Neurology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine explains, "Speech can be slurred or lost, eyesight can be affected."
Now there's new hope: ssing stem cells.
Dr. Yavagal adds, "These are the building blocks of our bodies."
Researchers at the University of Miami are conducting a clinical trial, injecting stem cells from healthy donors into the damaged areas of patients' brains.
Dr. Jonathan Jagid, University of Miami Health System explains, "That we can actually get the brain to start to heal, regenerate neurons, and for the first time produce improvement in these patient's symptoms."
The minimally invasive procedure is done through a one inch incision in the skull.
Dr. Yavagal says, "With the idea that the cells will stimulate repair of the stroke area."
As well as strengthen weak limbs.
Fowles had the procedure last July. Because it's a double blind study, he doesn't know whether he got the stem cells or not.
Fowles says, "I'm looking forward to some change."
He is feeling stronger every day, rowing as part of his rehab. He's hoping the stem cells are helping him and someday others recovering from stroke.
It's called the Actissima trial.
Patients should be between the ages of 18 and 85 and suffered a stroke in the previous six months to seven and a half years.
There are 60 clinical sites across the country.