2014年7月9日星期三

Patient Story





Before her 1st treatment (2008-7):
(1) The movement ability of her limbs was poor, she needed 4 others to help when she moved, her left foot is inversion obviously, could not stand or walk by herself;
(2) She could not communicate with others normally, irrelevant speech, talk to herself always, irritability, dysphoria;
(3) The fine movement ability of her both hands is poor, especially her right hand is worse, the muscle tension of her right arm is high, could not move voluntarily;
(4) The ability of her daily activities is poor, she could not control the urination and bowl movement, her memory ability and cognitive ability are reduced;
(5) The vision of her right eye is decreased, she could see nothing with her right eye.


After 1st treatment whilst before 2nd treatment (2008-10):
(1)    The movement ability of her limbs will be improved, her left inversion is disappeared;
(2)    She can communicate with others normally, speech fluently and quietly;
(3)    The muscle tension of her right arm is reduced, the movement of her right hand and arm is voluntary;
(4)    Her daily activities is enhanced, her urination and bowl movement are controlled well, her memory and cognitive ability is restored obviously.
(5)    The vision of her right eye is restored to normal basically.


After 2nd treatment whilst before 3rd treatment:
(1)    Her memory ability is improved further, her communication ability is enhanced;
(2)    The flexibility of her right hand is enhanced obviously, she can use chop tickers and knit a sweater by herself;
(3)    She can walk for a longer distance with 1 person assisted.



To be continued.

Patient Story

Mr. Xu, 40 years old, he is diagnosed to severe cranocerebral injury after a car crash on September, 2010. He was coma 3 months after the emergent operation. He was left the motor impair of left side body and speech disorder when he woke up. He received 1st round stem cell transplantation treatment (2 stem cell injections delivered by lumbar puncture and 1 stem cell transplantation via stereotactic brain surgery).

Before 1st treatment:
1.The muscle strength of his left upper limbs is poor, he could not move them;
2.The muscle strength of his waist is poor, he could not sit up by himself, he could not sit steadily via assistant;
3.The muscle strength of his left lower limb is poor, he dragged his left drop foot obviously when he was walking by assistant.

After 1st round treatment whilst before 2nd round treatment:
1.The muscle strength of his left limb is improved obviously, he can move his left arm on the bed;
2.The muscle strength of his waist is improved obviously, he can sit up by himself whilst he can sit up more stable;
3.The muscle strength of his left limb is improved obviously, his left drop feet dragging symptom is improved obviously whilst he can walk forwards by holding the handrail.
To be continued.

2014年7月3日星期四

Patient story

Mr. Zhang Lei, 26 years old, Chinese, police man. He suffered from extra severe craniocerebral injury after a car crash in 2005. After receiving a couple of neurosurgeries and cerebrospinal fluid drainage, the patient revived. During the head swollen decreasing, the right side brain disappeared since the affected brain tissue was pressed for a very long period, the related brain function is abnormal, so that the affected brain tissue are necrosis, then metabolized.
The patient decided to undergo the stem cell transplantation one year later(2006).

1.      Before the stem cell transplantation:
His muscle tension is very high;
The movement ability of his left side body is defected while the movement ability of his right side body is normal;
The body sensation is poor;
His face expression is poor;
His expression ability is poor;
His long-period memory ability is ok while his short-period memory ability is poor.

2.      After the stem cell transplantation:
His muscle tension is normal;
His scissor gait is improved, he can lift up his left foot, walk by himself for a certain distance;
He can move his left arm and left hand, his left side body can be controlled by his brain;
The body sensation is improved
His face expression is nature;
He can communicate with others smoothly, understand others’ humor and jokes;
His memory ability is improved.

Now He is married and goes back to his local police station for work.