EFE, Spain - A four-year old English girl is recovering in an "exceptional " a serious brain tumor and very rare due to treatment with stem cells derived from their own umbilical cord, his parents decided to keep when she was born.
The case of this girl, Alba Ramírez, is particularly unique because it is the first known case of a person receiving treatment in Spain stem cells from their own cord blood to fight a brain tumor.
Alba's parents, who was born without any health problems on February 9, 2007 in Cadiz (southern Spain) decided to freeze its umbilical cord and preserve their stem cells.
"He was saying, may serve or not, but going to freeze. And it was a providential decision, "he said to Reuters today the girl's mother.
almost normal life
Although not yet be regarded as small is healed completely, because he has not spent enough time in oncology are available for five years, Alba has been 16 months without treatment and makes a normal life but must go to the Logical periodic review.
At 22 months, she started having some symptoms that worried his parents, especially instability when walking, which led to a tour of visits to doctors until the little girl was diagnosed a medulloblastoma.
The healing process began with the removal of most of the tumor attached to the brain and then underwent chemotherapy Alba to reduce the size of the tumor remaining in a statement the company Cryo-Cord, the English bank preservation of stem cells from frozen umbilical cord girls.
Here are more intensive chemotherapy was applied to completely eliminate tumor cells, but in this last phase of chemotherapy not only destroys the tumor but also the patient's blood system, which is why we had to rebuild the system with stem cells.
Therefore, we proceeded to transplant stem cells from his umbilical cord, which had previously been requested by the Hospital Niño Jesús in Madrid to Cryo-Cord, who made them come from facilities in Belgium and Holland.
After transplant, the stem cells migrated to the bone marrow, where they multiplied and began to produce white blood cells, red blood cells and platelets, thus initiating the regeneration of the blood system.
At 60 days after transplant, her new stem cells were infused, this time from their peripheral blood platelet to accelerate the implant. Fourteen months after transplant, she has completely rebuilt their blood system and enjoy a normal life, with the logical check-ups.
The head of the Infant Jesus Hospital Oncohematology Madrid, Luis Madero, Alba responsible for processing and subsequent follow-up, stressed that a case is "unique" in Spain, the statement of Cryo-Cord.
"The use of stem cells to regenerate the blood system is an extended treatment in this type of cancer. What makes the case unique is that Alba for the first time in our country stem cells came from his own cord umbilical preserved at birth, "said Madero
Source: mejorsalud
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