Doctors at a hospital here
have claimed they successfully used stem cell therapy to enable a
25-year-old man, who injured his spinal cord in a fall in July last
year, to walk normally again.
This is the first time that Indian
doctors have resorted to stem cell therapy to cure spinal cord
problems, said J S Rajkumar, chief surgeon of the corporate Lifeline
multi- speciality hospital.
Akbar Ali, who was employed by a
construction company in Abu Dhabi, was injured when he fell from the
fourth floor of a building being built by the firm. When he was
admitted to a hospital in Abu Dhabi, a plate was fitted to treat his
spinal fracture, but he could not stand up on his own. Ali was brought
here by his parents in a wheelchair and admitted to the Lifeline
hospital.
Its doctors, in collaboration with the Indo-Japanese joint
venture Nichi In Centre For Regenerative Medicine (NCRA), used
autologous or "own body" stem therapy in December 2006 to treat Ali who
started walking on his own, Rajkumar told reporters today.
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