Stem cell therapy in Bangkok Thailand for multiple sclerosis

Stem cell therapy for those suffering from multiple sclerosis has shown great promise. All around the world in different countries trials are in progress and so far as showing very successful results in not only stemming the advancement of multiple sclerosis, but is in fact reversing the effects of the onset of MS.

According to the study, "If you wait until there's neuro-degeneration, you're trying to close the barn door after the horse has already escaped," says Burt. What you really want to do is stop the autoimmune attack before it causes nerve-cell damage, he adds.

In the latest trial, his team recruited 12 women and 11 men in the early relapsing-remitting stage of MS, who had not responded to treatment with the drug, interferon beta, after six months.

They removed stem cells from the patients' bone marrow, and then used chemicals to destroy all existing immune cells in the body, before re-injecting the stem cells. These then developed into naïve immune cells that do not see myelin as alien, and hence do not attack it.

Three years later, 17 of the patients had improved by at least one point on a standard disability scale, while none of the patients had deteriorated.

"For the first time ever in the history of treating MS we have reversed disability," says Burt.

He cautions that more trials are needed to confirm the findings – and these are now underway – but eventually, stem cell transplantation could provide an alternative to drugs in patients who don't respond to them. Transplantation also has the benefit of being a one-off treatment.

If you are considering stem cell therapy for MS, then one of the fine hospitals in Bangkok might just be the answer that you are looking for.