Dr Shalin Thakore and Dr Himanshu Patel Ignites Ray of Hope in PPH and DCM Diseases
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Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, Friday, December 15, 2006 — (Business Wire India) — Dr Shalin Thakore and Dr Himanshu Patel,the city based renowned cardiologist and embryologist respectively have ignited a ray of hope for PPH and DCM diseases by successfully implemented stem cell procedure.<\/p>\n
Primary Pulmonary Hypertension (PPH) or unexplained pulmonary hypertension is a lung disorder in which the blood pressure in the pulmonary artery rises far above normal levels for no apparent reason. Pulmonary artery is a blood vessle that carries blood from the heart to the lung.The normal pulmonary artery pressure is less than 30 mmHg in patients with PPH the presuure is progressively putting a strain on the heart leading to fatigue, tiredness, difficulty in breathing, dizziness and swelling of the feet. The diagnosis of PPH is often delayed due to the slowly progressive and insidious onset of symptoms.<\/p>\n
Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM) is the condition, where the muscles of the heart become weak for no apparent reason, leading to an enlargement of the heart. Patients with DCM present with difficulty in breathing and tiredness.<\/p>\n
Both diseases occur commonly in patients between the age of 20-40 years. The diseases are more common in females and also after pregnancy. As per American Heart Association and Pulmonary Hypertension Association, there is no such known cure for the diseases till date. The goal of the treatment was only to control symptoms.<\/p>\n
The city based team of medical experts Dr Shalin Thakore and Dr Himanshu Patel carried out stem cell therapy in patient with incurable conditions. The first patient with PPH was admitted in critical condition with a pulmonary artery pressure of 160 mmHg.The stem cell therapy has never been reported for the treatment of this disease. The first patient with PPH underwent stem cell infusion in the pulmonary artery on 4th November,2006. Her improvement was miraculous. Within few days,she was taken off oxygen and her PA pressure decreased to 65 mmHg. She was discharged from the hospital 5 days after the procedure and she is now able to carry out her routine household activities.<\/p>\n
Encouraged by the results of stem cells in patients with heart attacks, the same team of medical experts carried out this treatment on a 22 year old patient with DCM,who was admitted with severe breathlessness, low blood pressure and poor pumping function of the heart.(Normal is 55 % and above. In this case,lvef:4 %). The treatment was carried out on 28th November, 2006.The patient’s recovery was dramatic. After 15 days of the treatment her pumping function of the heart was improved to 15 %. Such amazing improvement has never been reported with any modality of the treatment anywhere in the world in both the conditions. Possible mechanisms for recovery are improvement in endothelial function and neoangiogenesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citynews.co.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}