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Permalink Reply by Priya on February 21, 2011 at 10:23am

This is a recent research which has come up in Germany only.

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Permalink Reply by Lois on February 20, 2011 at 9:12pm

"Definite cure?....expert?" (where are all the success stories?)
I've never heard of Stem Cell transplant for alopecia.
Transplanting stem cells is no small, mediocre operation...it's extremely
invasive and not a clinically proven protocol of treatment for alopecia.
Just sounds completely nuts.

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Permalink Reply by Priya on February 21, 2011 at 10:25am

An expert in Medicine has told me about this cure. The result is 80% positive. The whole procedure is like stem cells r transplanted into AU patients. These cells r taken from bone marrow or umbilical cord. I myself dont know much about it thats why I wanted to know from others here.

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Permalink Reply by Karen Smith on February 20, 2011 at 9:31pm

I have not heard of this for alopecia don't they have to wipe out your immune system first to do this?

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Permalink Reply by shirley carole douglas on February 21, 2011 at 8:03am

Hi
Check out Naaf site reseach

Shirley

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Permalink Reply by Priya on February 21, 2011 at 10:26am

Yah I need more info on this coz this is something new & when I heard that the results r mostly positive so was more curious to know about it.

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Permalink Reply by Tony J. on February 22, 2011 at 4:17am

Complete remission of alopecia universalis after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

http://bloodjournal.hematologylibrary.org/cgi/content/abstract/105/...

This is the only report I know about, if there are others please post them.

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Permalink Reply by maren on February 22, 2011 at 5:07am

Stem cell transplant is a treatment for Leukemia, they are not going to offer you anytime soon
such an invasive and expensive treatment ONLY for AU.

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Permalink Reply by Priya on February 22, 2011 at 11:36am

Tks for this link

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Permalink Reply by nrja on March 4, 2011 at 1:00am

there has been a study in one medical school... in which there was a man was experimented with stem cell theapy ... it was successfully done ..... i once thought of going there ... but it require time , and lost of money ...
link already got posted above

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Permalink Reply by Priya on March 4, 2011 at 10:09am

There r risks involved too since this treatment is usually made for cancer patients.

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Permalink Reply by Amy on March 29, 2011 at 10:54pm

There are several places in the US that are doing trials on this. I think they are mostly commerical vs. research organizations. One was in FL. And it wasnt a full stem cell transplant but a limited stem cell transplant to try to target only hair follicles. I read about them a couple years ago, havent seen much on it since so Im assuming it wasnt a commerical success, I dont know. There is of course the old study on the stem cell transplant who recovered from AU or whatever after his marrow transplant. That seems to make perfect sense to me given the autoimmune nature. However, most doctors are not willing to risk killing patients to regrow their hair, nor are insurance company eager to pay millions in the quest either, so those are out, but if you look up for limited transplants repost what the results were.

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