Good Results Despite Of Challenges Witnessed In Stem Cell Therapy For Stroke Treatment

Strokes not only leads to impairment, but some survivors are also left on the mercy of institutionalized care and some are even disabled for life. Mostly divided in two categories, majority of the strokes happen because of ischemia, and some of them because of hemorrhage.

As far as the Stroke Treatment is concerned, until now, people believed that brain tissues once damaged cannot be repaired. However, Stem Cell Therapy and recent research has given evidence that brain cells can be grown again and improved neurological functionality has also been witnessed. For growing back nerve tissues stem cells are required in huge numbers.

The approach that researchers are presently working on includes extracting stem cell from the patient’s bone marrow or abdominal fat and then injecting them into the patient’s body after activation.

The challenge with this kind of Stem Cell Therapy for Stroke Treatment is taking the cells to the right area of the brain and then implementing the growth. The process triggers the cells surrounding the damaged tissue of the brain so that healing can be more rapid and thus improve functioning of the brain.

A number of clinical trials have proved that injecting reprogrammed adult cells in human brain that have suffered a stroke is very effective and safe at the same time. Patients who have been administered with such Stem Cell Therapy have not suffered any adverse effects and side effects were not present as well. However, because of the surgical process some patients suffer from headaches. The best part of the process was the improvement in moving ability of the patient. Another challenge with Stem Cell Therapy for Stroke Treatment is the problem of immune rejection.

To cope with this problem researchers are now working on the use of mesenchymal cells as these can be harvested easily from the bone marrow and they are safe from immune rejection as compared to cells that are received from a donor. The good thing about these cells is that they help in suppressing immune system, which further aids in avoiding immune rejection.

In some of the trials where patients were injected with mesenchymal cell, they showed recovery only within a month’s time after the surgery, although the cells disappeared almost a month after the Stem Cell Therapy. The positive point of these trials is that patients kept on improving even after six months following the surgery and there were no blood abnormalities, making the process even more effective for the patient.


Age of the patients undergoing Stroke Treatment is also a big consideration, but with Stem Cell Therapy even patients over seventy years of age have shown improvement in functioning even sustained the improvement for a long time after the therapy.  

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