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Good luck, Asher!!

@Gogo I wrote this once, prior to my arrival in Jerusalem I was on mitoxantrone so Prof. Slavin and Dr. Karussis together with my neurologist (she went with me) concluded that the absence of lesions might be the result of mitoxantrone treatment. As for MSC, back then such a treatment was developed, ...

hey ariehs, good to see you posting again, but sorry to hear that the MSC's didn't work for longer... I think that pretty much everyone who frequents the stem cell threads here are looking into HSCT as a way to permanently stop their ms. It's a bummer to hear that Slavin has acted like that, as I w...

Come on HUD, if somebody deserves respect, than it is you! You went through something very nasty twice, big big RESPECT! Regarding allo HSCT, first time I met Prof. Slavin (March 2006) he spoke about a person (I think boy) who went through that and apparently was fine back then. Maybe I misunderstoo...

Craig Garisson http://www.mult-sclerosis.org/craigsstory.html one of my inspirations for the HSCT, went through the myeloablative HSCT + TBI (total body irradiation!), and apparently he is doing fine. Our current understanding of the MS does not allow us to answer the question: Why the HSCT works fo...

Hello to all off you, For those who do not know (it has been a while since my last post), I am the guy that did the non-myeloablative HSCT at Hadassah, Jerusalem, in late 2006-early 2007. Back then, Prof. Slavin was still at Hadassah, and CTCI was still in construction. Before the HSCT I was SPMS wi...

Congratulations!!

For the non-myeoblative procedure, what is the recovery like? I know that with the myeoblative it is very critical to maintain sanitary conditions since you basically have no immune system after the procedure. It did not take long before I regained my strength, as for immune system, well it took so...

I am not an expert, but if I would have to apply both myeloablative and non-myeloablative protocols on a various group of individuals, I would go with the myeloablative on those patients with a) RRMS, especially those with very active (inflammatory) disease and low EDSS score and b) those individua...

I am not an expert, but if I would have to apply both myeloablative and non-myeloablative protocols on a various group of individuals, I would go with the myeloablative on those patients with a) RRMS, especially those with very active (inflammatory) disease and low EDSS score and b) those individual...

I do not know all the details, except that this person received one infusion in Greece, there is a topic on this forum describing similar experiences:

http://www.thisisms.com/forum/stem-cell ... c9388.html

I posted this before, apparently it worked for some people: http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/MS-patients-going-abroad-to-find-help-from-1688266.php#page-2 http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/Health/20081116/ms_treatment_081116/ However, I also spoke with a person who received MSC infusion few y...

Few weeks ago I contacted Prof. Slavin, he let me know that the CTCI team is now able to (in the laboratory) trans-differentiate bone marrow and adipose tissue derived mesenchymal stromal stem cells (MSC) to neural stem cells, motor neurons, dopaminergic neurons, astrocytes and oligodendrocytes that...

Ten days ago I found this: http://www.msmusings.com/archive40/41/Real,%20NewestWriter.htm http://www.msmusings.com/archive2/52/Real,%20stem%20cell%20transplant.htm It appears that this guy (upon trying everything) did the myeloablative HSCT in 2004 in Brugge Belgium on a private basis, and was also ...