Repair this knee achy by injecting it with your own BELLY FATAn injection of fat cells from a patient's stomach can end the brain- Agony of arthritis in the knee. The experimental procedure involves the elimination of a small amount of fat from the patient's abdomen with a thin, hollow metal tube called a cannula.
The removed tissue is then "washed" to seek and separate the percytic cells that are found in the lining of the blood vessels in the fat.
These function as stem cells, well known for their healing properties - encouraging tissues to repair and regenerate.
Joint effort: how an arthritic knee is soothed and healed by adipose cellsThe harvested cells are then injected directly into the knee to help reduce inflammation and Repair damaged knee cartilage by arthritis. Patients can return home the same day and return to work the next day.
Early research on 20 patients with osteoarthritis and presented at the meeting of the International Cartilage Repair Society in Sorrento last September found the £ 6,000 treatments to reduce pain and greatly increase the pain- Activity in most patients.
After two years, the pain dropped from severe to mild and the activity score increased, according to the study presented by Polish Orthodox Surgeon Konrad Slynarski, who achieved more than 200 procedures since 2014.
The 90-minute technique, available privately in the UK, is called Lipogems and runs under local anesthesia. Professor Adrian Wilson, an orthopedic surgeon at Harley Street in London, who proposed the procedure stated: "Body fat contains a very high concentration of perictyes - pre-stem cells that are found in blood vessels in fat
Once they develop into stem cells, they promote the formation of new blood vessels that contribute to healing. By using body fat, you get 100 times more regenerative cells than for example from the bone marrow. "
Professor Wilson has treated 12 patients with arthritis with the Lipogems technique since last November. All but one have seen an improvement in their condition, he said.
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