The experimental use of stem cells for kidney repair has been linked to complications in a patient with kidney disease, the BBC has reported. It said that stem cell injections were followed by tissue damage in the patient, who later died from an infection.
The story is based on a case report on a 46-year-old woman with end-stage kidney disease who underwent stem cell therapy in a private clinic in Thailand. The woman’s condition did not improve after stem cells were injected into the regions of both of her kidneys, and so three months later she began dialysis. She was later found to have abnormal growths of tissue in and around her kidneys that the authors of the case report suspect were caused by the therapy. The patient later underwent removal of her left kidney but gradually deteriorated and died.
More from NHS Choiceshttp://www.nhs.uk/news/2010/06june/pages/stem-cell-therapy-unkown-complications.aspx
Monday, 30 August 2010
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