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Stem cell therapy can be a rough art. That it has only been proven effective for some blood and immune disorders hasn’t stopped Australian clinics from offering it for a wide range of other conditions.
A loophole in the regulations means people can be given stem cell therapy for virtually anything providing their own stem cells are harvested then used in the process.
While the use of stem cells from other sources is tightly regulated, clinics around the country are offering “autologous” transplants as if nothing could go wrong – just because the cells belong to the patient.
A sobering case study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine has shown just how wrong autologous transplants can go.
It tells of an American woman who became a paraplegic from a motorcycle accident at the age of 18. After making no progress for three years, she went to Portugal for stem cell therapy as part of an approved clinical trial.
There, small pieces of the lining from the top of her nasal passages were harvested. These contained both olfactory stem and...
A loophole in the regulations means people can be given stem cell therapy for virtually anything providing their own stem cells are harvested then used in the process.
While the use of stem cells from other sources is tightly regulated, clinics around the country are offering “autologous” transplants as if nothing could go wrong – just because the cells belong to the patient.
A sobering case study published in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine has shown just how wrong autologous transplants can go.
It tells of an American woman who became a paraplegic from a motorcycle accident at the age of 18. After making no progress for three years, she went to Portugal for stem cell therapy as part of an approved clinical trial.
There, small pieces of the lining from the top of her nasal passages were harvested. These contained both olfactory stem and...