Stem cell has again captured the headlines. This time it has given new and normal life to Billy Tyteneck, 25 year old boy who was suffering from a severe form of Crohn’s disease for more than 12 years.

Billy Tytaneck, a 21 year old boy has been battling for half of his life with a severe form of Crohn’s disease. Crohn’s disease is a chronic, recurrent inflammatory disease of the intestinal tract. All the medications that were suggested by his doctors were going into vain. Then suddenly he learned about some incidents of stem cell transplant that had helped Crohn’s patients.

He immediately pitched the idea to his hematologist Dr Harold Atkins, who had performed this procedure previously on various patients with other conditions, such as multiple sclerosis and lupus. And luckily the doctor also agreed to help him back.

He then undergo a long procedure involving wiping out the patient’s immune system that believed to be at the root of Crohn’s disease, with high doses of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Then infusing the stem cells back in the patients body that has been previously taken out.

And now after finishing all those procedure Tytaneck is back into his routine schedule. He says that, the enjoyment part which disappeared near about twelve years ago has returned to my life, and for this all the credit goes to stem cell therapy.

Source: http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/