Submitted by Kirshner Ross-Vaden
A baby?s umbilical cord, once considered medical waste is a rich source of stem cells. Cells considered as the body?s ?master cells.?
These are the basic building blocks of the human body able to transform into blood, organs, tissue, and components of the immune system.
Stem cells reproduce and differentiate into many other cell types, including but not limited to; bone, heart, muscle, and nerve.
This is the miracle of cord blood.
How and Why Treatment for Optic Disorders Began
Types of Optic Nerve issues that can be treated:
Septo-optic dysplasia: a congenital malformation syndrome manifested by hypoplasia (underdevelopment) of the optic nerve, hypopituitarism, and absence of the septum pellucidum (a midline part of the brain). In a severe case, this results in pituitary hormone deficiencies, blindness, and mental retardation.
Optic nerve hypoplasia: a medical condition that results in the underdevelopment of the optic nerves.
Optic atrophy: is the loss of some or most of the fibers of the optic nerve. In medicine, "atrophy" usually means "shrunken but capable of regrowth".
Damage to the optic nerve: while damage can occur from any number of traumatic incidents the result is decreased eyesight or no eyesight at all.
Ischemic Optic Neuropathy: ischemia is a decrease in the blood supply to a cell and/or tissue. This results in a decrease of oxygen and nutrition to the area and without these the cells of the tissue will incur damage and may eventually die. Ischemia of the optic nerve results in ischemic optic neuropathy.
Optic neuritis: Inflammation of the optic nerve causes loss of vision usually due to the swelling and destruction of the myelin sheath covering the optic nerve. Direct axonal damage may also play a role in nerve destruction in many cases.
HOW IT BEGAN:
Kirshner Ross-Vaden, a specialist in the area of clinical applications with Umbilical Cord Stem Cells, put together a comprehensive protocol for the treatment of optic nerve issues in the spring of 2007 after receiving a heart felt plea from a mother of a young girl totally blind as a result of Optic Nerve Hypoplasia. She readily admits that she was perhaps the first person in medical history who felt that such disorders were indeed treatable. Optic nerve issues have always been considered to be ?untreatable? and little hope has been given to parents and patients suffering from these disorders. This protocol was developed based on her experience with brain injured children that also have vision issues secondary to their brain injury as well as other types of patients such as those with MS. Mrs. Vaden had been making notes that including other improvements the parents and patients were also reporting increases in eyesight and vision. It was this very simple observation that lead to the spark in her mind and she began to wonder if despite thier disorders and/or brain injury these children and adults were actually having improvements in their functional eyesight secondary to an improvement in the functionality of the optic nerve itself. ONH and SOD are among the leading causes of blindness in the world and despite this no one has ever attempted to treat them with stem cells. Parents of children with ONH and SOD have also been given little if any hope that their children would ever have function eyesight. Patients with damaged optic nerves in addition have also been told that there was no hope for them to ever see again. No clinical studies or trails had ever been done on this treatment methodology but despite the lack of scientific evidence Mrs. Ross-Vaden took a very different position on this issue. It was her feeling that our medical technology had now advanced to a place where by this old dogma of ?no treatment? and ?no hope?; should no longer exist. Thanks to her foresight and determination it is now indeed a brand new day for those diagnosised with these disorders.
?If you think it is impossible then it will be because you will have never tried?
I do caution you to know that each patient may respond differently as no two cases will have exactly the same clinical and functional picture. The younger the patient and/or child is the better the results will likely be. Just as the sooner treatment is done post injury the better the results are likely to be. We have been using this exact type of treatment and product for several years on both adults and children and know it to be extremely safe but that said there are no guarantees as to its effectiveness for every single case. That being said you need to be aware that at no time anywhere in the world has anyone ever attempted to clinically treat the optic nerve in this manner and there is no evidence written in any medical journals and/or other scientific literature for you and/or your doctors to reference. This began as one woman?s vision, mine, and I will continue to stay the course and collect as much data and documentation as possible so that all the results can be shared with the world.
A baby?s umbilical cord, once considered medical waste is a rich source of stem cells. Cells considered as the body?s ?master cells.?
These are the basic building blocks of the human body able to transform into blood, organs, tissue, and components of the immune system.
Stem cells reproduce and differentiate into many other cell types, including but not limited to; bone, heart, muscle, and nerve.
This is the miracle of cord blood.
How and Why Treatment for Optic Disorders Began
Types of Optic Nerve issues that can be treated:
Septo-optic dysplasia: a congenital malformation syndrome manifested by hypoplasia (underdevelopment) of the optic nerve, hypopituitarism, and absence of the septum pellucidum (a midline part of the brain). In a severe case, this results in pituitary hormone deficiencies, blindness, and mental retardation.
Optic nerve hypoplasia: a medical condition that results in the underdevelopment of the optic nerves.
Optic atrophy: is the loss of some or most of the fibers of the optic nerve. In medicine, "atrophy" usually means "shrunken but capable of regrowth".
Damage to the optic nerve: while damage can occur from any number of traumatic incidents the result is decreased eyesight or no eyesight at all.
Ischemic Optic Neuropathy: ischemia is a decrease in the blood supply to a cell and/or tissue. This results in a decrease of oxygen and nutrition to the area and without these the cells of the tissue will incur damage and may eventually die. Ischemia of the optic nerve results in ischemic optic neuropathy.
Optic neuritis: Inflammation of the optic nerve causes loss of vision usually due to the swelling and destruction of the myelin sheath covering the optic nerve. Direct axonal damage may also play a role in nerve destruction in many cases.
HOW IT BEGAN:
Kirshner Ross-Vaden, a specialist in the area of clinical applications with Umbilical Cord Stem Cells, put together a comprehensive protocol for the treatment of optic nerve issues in the spring of 2007 after receiving a heart felt plea from a mother of a young girl totally blind as a result of Optic Nerve Hypoplasia. She readily admits that she was perhaps the first person in medical history who felt that such disorders were indeed treatable. Optic nerve issues have always been considered to be ?untreatable? and little hope has been given to parents and patients suffering from these disorders. This protocol was developed based on her experience with brain injured children that also have vision issues secondary to their brain injury as well as other types of patients such as those with MS. Mrs. Vaden had been making notes that including other improvements the parents and patients were also reporting increases in eyesight and vision. It was this very simple observation that lead to the spark in her mind and she began to wonder if despite thier disorders and/or brain injury these children and adults were actually having improvements in their functional eyesight secondary to an improvement in the functionality of the optic nerve itself. ONH and SOD are among the leading causes of blindness in the world and despite this no one has ever attempted to treat them with stem cells. Parents of children with ONH and SOD have also been given little if any hope that their children would ever have function eyesight. Patients with damaged optic nerves in addition have also been told that there was no hope for them to ever see again. No clinical studies or trails had ever been done on this treatment methodology but despite the lack of scientific evidence Mrs. Ross-Vaden took a very different position on this issue. It was her feeling that our medical technology had now advanced to a place where by this old dogma of ?no treatment? and ?no hope?; should no longer exist. Thanks to her foresight and determination it is now indeed a brand new day for those diagnosised with these disorders.
?If you think it is impossible then it will be because you will have never tried?
I do caution you to know that each patient may respond differently as no two cases will have exactly the same clinical and functional picture. The younger the patient and/or child is the better the results will likely be. Just as the sooner treatment is done post injury the better the results are likely to be. We have been using this exact type of treatment and product for several years on both adults and children and know it to be extremely safe but that said there are no guarantees as to its effectiveness for every single case. That being said you need to be aware that at no time anywhere in the world has anyone ever attempted to clinically treat the optic nerve in this manner and there is no evidence written in any medical journals and/or other scientific literature for you and/or your doctors to reference. This began as one woman?s vision, mine, and I will continue to stay the course and collect as much data and documentation as possible so that all the results can be shared with the world.
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