Muscular dystrophy is a muscle related disease that gradually weakens the muscles eventually rendering the person to walk or move around accurately. This disorder prevents the production of a protein called ‘dystrophin’, resulting in fragile and damaged muscles that gradually leads to muscle’s non-functionality. If left untreated, the damage builds up causing progressive disability in patients. Therefore, on time treatment with stem cells is essential to halt further deterioration.
Symptoms
The signs and symptoms in a person surface at different ages and in different muscles, depending on the severity and type of muscular dystrophy. Symptoms that appear in early childhood include:
- Frequent falls
- Waddling gait
- Walking on the toes
- Difficulty while rising, standing and sitting
- Unable to run or jump
- Large calf muscles
- Muscle stiffness and rigidity
- Learning disabilities
Parents must seek immediate medical advice if they notice signs of muscle weakness or any of the above mentioned symptoms in their child.
Cell Treatment For Muscular Dystrophy
Muscles are the fibrous connective tissue that maintains the movements of the limbs and various muscles such as cardiac muscles and skeleton muscles.Due to genetic manipulations, the cells of the muscles are lost resulting in neuromuscular degenerative diseases like muscular dystrophy. To treat this disease, stem cells also known satellite cells (responsible for replacing the dead muscle fibre cells) are extracted from the patient, treated and then infused back into him/her to form new muscle fibres or repair the damage.
The complete cell therapy process, right from the isolation of the bone marrow derived stem cells till their infusion into the patient is done with the modern and well equipped state of the art facility provided at the hospital. Once the marrow is extracted, they are filtered using ‘density gradient centrifugation’ procedure to separate the stem cells from the unwanted tissue. The cells are then mixed with CFS to enrich the viable quantity of mesenchymal stem cells before being re-infused back into the muscle motor points through a thin needle attached to an injection. infused into the body, the healthy cells travel to the areas of concern to differentiate into cell type, secrete cytokine and increase oxygenated blood flow to the damaged areas. After successful transplantation, the doctors also recommend rigorous rehabilitation therapies to help the patients regain their lost skill and muscle strength and limb coordination.
At NeuroGen Brain and Spine Institute, the team of renowned neurosurgeons provides safe and effective treatment,for muscular dystrophy,with autologous stem cells. This therapy helps to reduce the dire effects, experienced by the patient,from weak and waning muscle mass.
