It's always nice to have good news, and children who have had successful outcomes with stem cell therapy is always good news to me.
Last night, Singapore's Channel News Asia announced that a 2 year-old baby boy has recovered from a fatal disease (exactly what wasn't named) after fighting against viral and fungal infections, which are often associated with poor immune systems in transplantation.
The transplant was performed by A/Prof. Dr. Tan Ah Moy, head of KK Women's and Children's Paediatric Haematology Unit in May last year.
The little boy's name and nationality has been withheld for now -probably for privacy reasons- but I hope we'll get to hear more about his condition, whether it was genetic or spontaneous and the factors that led to the successful transplant.
We have transplant facilities in Kuala Lumpur at the University Hospital and also at the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital, but I have to admit that Singapore's hospitals do a much better job at marketing themselves online. KK states on its website that the paediatric haematology team has performed 35 transplants to date, and I'm sure that with a fairly homogenous population and the Singapore cord blood bank in its basement, there will be many more babies that can be saved.
If you need a transplantation specialist, here's a short who's who list:
Clin A/Prof Tan Ah Moy
Head & Senior Consultant
Appt. tel: +65 6294 4050
Prof. Chan Lee Lee
Head and Senior Consultant
Appt. tel: +603-79502275
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1. IT HAS COME TO THE NOTICE FROM RELIABLE RESOURCES THAT SINGAPORE COUNTRY ARE GIVING THE STEM CELL TRANSPLANT AND THE GETTING CURE OF HEAD INJURY2. My son amit kumar verma aged 19 years studying in Bachelor of Science Second year who is met with an motorbike accident on 06 Oct 06 and had severe head injury on occipital bone (defuse axonal). He has been treated in my country and some improvements like recognises to our family members and his friends, opening of eyes, hearing sound, laughing,shouting nicely and some emotional activities . But he is not able to speak, walk . no bedsour, no paralysis in any part of body. Still he is bed ridden. the liquied food is geven through RYLES tube and little bit he swallow and chew with taste. 3. Sir, I am preety sure that my son can be cure on getting stem cell treatment my request to give your contact no.and doctors name who is doing this treatment so that i can contact him. and, 4. I will plan to come with my ailing son on getting positive response from ur side. I shall be indeed grateful to save life of my son. Thanking u sir.R.L VERMA
Dear Mr. Verma,
Thank you for your inquiry and description of your son's condition. At this present time and to my knowledge, there is no absolute "cure" for spinal cord injuries with stem cells or any other treatments. Nerve injuries are notoriously difficult to repair.
However, if you'd like to share more information on your son's condition, we can help see what programs there are around the world which may be able to help him improve his condition.
Please drop us an email at info@stemlife.com or call us at +6016 211 1166.
Best regards,
Sharon
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