Przeszczep komórki macierzystej remedium na Crohna ?
: 01 mar 2006, 22:55
Experimental Transplant
Teen who lost 50 pounds hopes stem cell operation combats Crohn's disease ...
Bryan's disease is so severe he has recently been approved to receive a rare experimental stem cell transplant at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. The teen would be the 11th person in the country to receive the transplant to help combat Crohn's disease, an inflammatory bowel disease caused by a dysfunctional immune system.
All 10 patients who have received the transplant no longer suffer from any symptoms related to the disease, said Dr. Richard Burt, a stem cell transplant specialist and chief of the division of immunotherapy at Northwestern. The patients still have some traces of Crohn's disease in the body, but they can eat normally, function normally and no longer have major bowel problems.
"We offer the stem cell transplant to those who have very serious disease and have failed everything else," Burt said. "The 10 we have done are all doing great and are in clinical remission."
The stem cell transplant procedure is still considered experimental, but it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for clinical trials two years ago.
During a stem cell transplant, doctors harvest the patient's own stem cells and then deliberately destroy the immune system with chemotherapy. After the immune system is destroyed, the stem cells are transplanted back in the body in the hopes that they will form a new, healthy immune system.
Stem cells form all the immune cells in the body, Burt said.
"Your immune system cells sometimes live for decades in the body, so if things go wrong, they can cause problems for a long time," Burt said. "We destroy them and start over with new cells. We try to reboot the immune system."
"The stem cell transplant will save his life," said the father, who is taking out a second mortgage on his home to help pay for the procedure. "He can grow up to be a man and lead a normal life. I can't even wrestle with my boy right now."
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Teen who lost 50 pounds hopes stem cell operation combats Crohn's disease ...
Bryan's disease is so severe he has recently been approved to receive a rare experimental stem cell transplant at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. The teen would be the 11th person in the country to receive the transplant to help combat Crohn's disease, an inflammatory bowel disease caused by a dysfunctional immune system.
All 10 patients who have received the transplant no longer suffer from any symptoms related to the disease, said Dr. Richard Burt, a stem cell transplant specialist and chief of the division of immunotherapy at Northwestern. The patients still have some traces of Crohn's disease in the body, but they can eat normally, function normally and no longer have major bowel problems.
"We offer the stem cell transplant to those who have very serious disease and have failed everything else," Burt said. "The 10 we have done are all doing great and are in clinical remission."
The stem cell transplant procedure is still considered experimental, but it was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for clinical trials two years ago.
During a stem cell transplant, doctors harvest the patient's own stem cells and then deliberately destroy the immune system with chemotherapy. After the immune system is destroyed, the stem cells are transplanted back in the body in the hopes that they will form a new, healthy immune system.
Stem cells form all the immune cells in the body, Burt said.
"Your immune system cells sometimes live for decades in the body, so if things go wrong, they can cause problems for a long time," Burt said. "We destroy them and start over with new cells. We try to reboot the immune system."
"The stem cell transplant will save his life," said the father, who is taking out a second mortgage on his home to help pay for the procedure. "He can grow up to be a man and lead a normal life. I can't even wrestle with my boy right now."
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/ ... 97404.html