COPD Stem Cell Treatment | Analytical Stem Cell

Analytical Stem Cell is hosting treatment for COPD using stem cell therapy.

About Stem Cell Therapy for COPD

Autologous Adipose-derived Stem Cells (ASCs) are a novel therapy for patients with COPD. More than 12 million people are diagnosed with COPD in the United States every year and someone dies of COPD every four minutes. COPD is the fourth leading cause of death and in 2007 carried an economic cost of $42.6 billion in direct health care costs and lost productivity.

The two main subtypes of COPD are chronic bronchitis and emphysema and current thinking is that chronic inflammation plays a significant role in both types of COPD. Increasing evidence suggests that COPD has an autoimmune component1 and even after patients with COPD have quit smoking blood markers of active inflammation are still present. 2

Chronic bronchitis may be thought of as an inflammatory disease of the large airways. In this disease chronic exposure to inhaled irritants, most notably cigarette smoke, increases inflammation of the bronchi resulting in hyperplasia and hypertrophy of the mucus and goblet cells lining the bronchi. This causes obstruction of air flow to the lungs as well as the chronic productive cough characteristic of chronic bronchitis.3

Inflammation is also the cause of much of the resulting pathology in emphysema. Cigarette smoking and, to a lesser extent, inhalation of other irritants such as mining dust and air pollution, lead to oxidative stress with release of larger amounts of free radicals. The body responds by increasing the production of locally active inflammatory cytokines. In susceptible individuals the end result of the chronic inflammation is a destruction of alveolar walls. Collapse of the alveolar walls, in turn, results in decreased surface area for transfer of oxygen and exchange for carbon dioxide into the bloodstream. Collapse of air sacs also destroys the supporting infrastructure of the lungs, leading to a degree of lung collapse, particularly during expiration. Incomplete expulsion of air within the lungs occurs during exhalation by the time that air hunger leads to the need for another breath and emphysema patients need to breathe faster and work harder to maintain adequate oxygenation.

The Procedure

How and where is my therapy done?

All treatments are performed under medical supervision of the finest medical specialistsincluding plastic surgeons, neurosurgeons, neurologists, cardiologists, anesthetists, pediatricians, orthopedic surgeons and radiologists. Theclinics have the highest possible medical standard and patients are taken care off by a professional team of physicians, nurses, patient advisors, and other assistants.In the US, as well as abroad, all Physicians are licensed and have been specially trained in stem cell treatments.

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COPD Stem Cell Treatment | Analytical Stem Cell