Doctors were able to restore the ability to walk in a person paralyzed due to a spinal injury – Moskovsky Komsomolets

This achievement is more significant in its consequences than landing a man on the moon

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Paralyzed man began to walk thanks to an experimental treatment. Paralyzed man was able to walk again after innovative treatment, within which he transplanted the cells of the nasal cavity into the damaged area of ​​the spinal cord.

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Darek Fidyka (Darek Fidyka) , which in 2010 result of stab wounds was paralyzed from the waist down, is now able to move around, leaning on a walker , transfers bbc.co.uk .

Surgeons Clinic at the University of the Polish city of Wroclaw (Wroclaw University Hospital), together with scientists from University College London (University College London) were able to largely restore the conductivity of the damaged nerve fibers of the spinal cord 38-year-old resident of Bulgaria. in the operation were used bipolar olfactory cell receptors, which are part of the olfactory system. These cells are used to transmit signals along nerve fibers.

In the first of two operations surgeons removed one of the olfactory bulb of the patient and grown in cell culture laboratory. Two weeks later, they transplanted these cells into nerve fibers of the spinal cord of the patient, which had been cut with a knife during the attack. The doctors were only 500,000 such cells that quite a bit.

About a hundred microinjection solution cells were made above and below the injury site. Four thin strips of nervous tissue were taken from the patient’s ankles and placed along the fracture in the nerve fibers of the spinal cord width of 8 mm.

Scientists believe that the olfactory cells create the way in which nerve fibers are above and below the injury may connect with each other, using the bridge of the transplanted nerve tissue.

Before surgery Darek was paralyzed for almost two years and showed no signs of recovery, despite months of intensive physiotherapy. This intensive program of physiotherapy, in which he was engaged for five hours, five days a week, continued after the surgery at the Center for Rehabilitation aksononeyrologicheskoy in Wroclaw.

Fidyka noticed the first signs of success after three months of treatment. Six months after surgery, he was able to make a few faltering steps, holding onto the railing, using the support of a physiotherapist and special tires for your feet.

The cells of the nasal mucosa became that bridge that connected between the damaged nerve bundles of the spinal cord.

Colleagues Polish and British neurosurgeons from other countries have already compared this breakthrough in neurosurgery with the landing first astronauts to the moon, said health-ua.org .

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Paralyzed man was able to walk again after the innovation of the course of treatment, within which he transplanted cells from the nasal cavity into the damaged portion of the spinal cord. Video posted on the site youtube.com user BBC News