The study reveals that the treatment cured of sickle cell adults
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In December, U.S. researchers said hardening of nine adults who suffer from sickle cell disease.
And treated in all ten patients in the study with bone marrow donation. Health reasons in the backbone of new blood cells to form.
Sickle cell anemia, also called sickle-cell anemia is a hereditary disease that deforms red blood cells. When they become sticky and harden in the form of the letter C, such as sickle, a tool with curved blade.
Deformed cells block blood vessels and cut off the flow of oxygen to the tissues in the body.
Can people who suffer from sickle cell disease suffer from severe pain, bacterial infections and tissue death.
In other studies, bone marrow transplantation cured sickle cell disease acute in nearly two hundred children. Doctors first used chemicals to destroy the backbone of children, then replace the marrow with healthy.
However, it was considered that the doctors treat too risky for adults with the disease. Already damaged its principal behind all the destruction of the bone marrow.
Thus, for the ten patients in the study, doctors use a small amount of radiation to destroy only part of the spinal cord. Then patients received marrow healthy.
There was enough space in the bone marrow to begin producing healthy new red blood cells.
The researchers say that the ten patients stay alive two and a half years after treatment. The disease disappeared in nine of them.
Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside the bones soft. Doctors can pick it up with a needle. But should people who donate bone marrow to pass the first tests to ensure that a good match for the patient.
Published New England Journal of Medicine study. The John Tisdale at the National Institutes of Health Principal Investigator.
He said other uses for treatment are also likely to be found.
Blacks in Africa is the vast majority of those who suffer from sickle cell disease. Was found nearly two hundred thousand cases among children in Africa each year. About eighty thousand people in the United States suffer from this disease.
A study published in September in vaccines Lancet bacteria could save the lives of children who suffer from sickle cell disease in Africa. The study highlighted that many children die before they are identified until they have this disease. They are dying of bacterial infections that are new vaccines. But these vaccines are expensive and available mainly in rich countries.
This is the Voice of America's health report in the English language. For more health news, go to voaspecialenglish.com.
(Adapted from 16Dec2009 Radio program)
In December, U.S. researchers said hardening of nine adults who suffer from sickle cell disease.
And treated in all ten patients in the study with bone marrow donation. Health reasons in the backbone of new blood cells to form.
Sickle cell anemia, also called sickle-cell anemia is a hereditary disease that deforms red blood cells. When they become sticky and harden in the form of the letter C, such as sickle, a tool with curved blade.
Deformed cells block blood vessels and cut off the flow of oxygen to the tissues in the body.
Can people who suffer from sickle cell disease suffer from severe pain, bacterial infections and tissue death.
In other studies, bone marrow transplantation cured sickle cell disease acute in nearly two hundred children. Doctors first used chemicals to destroy the backbone of children, then replace the marrow with healthy.
However, it was considered that the doctors treat too risky for adults with the disease. Already damaged its principal behind all the destruction of the bone marrow.
Thus, for the ten patients in the study, doctors use a small amount of radiation to destroy only part of the spinal cord. Then patients received marrow healthy.
There was enough space in the bone marrow to begin producing healthy new red blood cells.
The researchers say that the ten patients stay alive two and a half years after treatment. The disease disappeared in nine of them.
Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside the bones soft. Doctors can pick it up with a needle. But should people who donate bone marrow to pass the first tests to ensure that a good match for the patient.
Published New England Journal of Medicine study. The John Tisdale at the National Institutes of Health Principal Investigator.
He said other uses for treatment are also likely to be found.
Blacks in Africa is the vast majority of those who suffer from sickle cell disease. Was found nearly two hundred thousand cases among children in Africa each year. About eighty thousand people in the United States suffer from this disease.
A study published in September in vaccines Lancet bacteria could save the lives of children who suffer from sickle cell disease in Africa. The study highlighted that many children die before they are identified until they have this disease. They are dying of bacterial infections that are new vaccines. But these vaccines are expensive and available mainly in rich countries.
This is the Voice of America's health report in the English language. For more health news, go to voaspecialenglish.com.
(Adapted from 16Dec2009 Radio program)
The study reveals that the treatment cured of sickle cell adults
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