How does Stem Cell Therapy Treat Kidney Failure
2016-04-02 10:37
Stem cell therapy as one of the new treatment of kidney failure, it has been used to treat various kidney diseases widely. However, stem cell treatment in most hospitals is still not used maturely, so as a kidney failure patient you'd better know it clear before choosing it as your treatment.
How does Stem Cell Therapy treat kidney failure?
Until now, only if the diseased kidney is replaced by a healthy kidney, can patients have a chance to get recovery completely but still need to take anti-rejection medications for the rest of their life. Stem Cell Therapy is one treatment that focuses on repairing most damaged kidney cells, so as to improve patients’ kidney function level obviously.
When stem cells are injected or transplanted into the body, these cells can find the areas where impaired kidneys located with the guidance of cytokines, which are released by impaired kidneys. Then, stem cells will differentiate into specific renal cells, and these new cells replace impaired kidney cells to work.
What are the risks or side effects of stem cell therapy in treating kidney failure?
Even though stem cell therapy has no toxicity and rejection reaction, it still has some side effects or risks. For instance, there may be a danger of worsening patients’ illness condition, if stem cells grow uncontrolled or don’t differentiate as we expect. Another risk is the stem cell from sheep or other animals that is used to treat human patients. Most of these risks happen due to the irresponsibility of stem cell clinics.
How to increase the success rate of stem cell therapy?
From the above analysis, we can know the key is to choose one specialized clinic or hospital to do this therapy, because professional doctors can determine the best type and the number of stem cells used for their patients. Then, patients can get therapeutic effects of this therapy as many as they can.
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