Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

A personal consultation with a doctor is an opportunity for you to find out all details of the program and get an individual prognosis. All the medical information you provide will be carefully reviewed so that you get the most effective treatment. The procedures take place in our clinical institutions in Kyiv, Ukraine.
The course of the treatment is developed individually and lasts from 3 days.

During the checkup, the doctor assesses your readiness for cell therapy. If the assessment is positive, biological materials are taken. Depending on your doctor's recommendations, you may be prescribed your own* or donor stem cells.

* If you are prescribed the treatment with your own cells, you will have an ear punch biopsy performed under anesthesia in an operating room. The procedure lasts for 15 minutes. The punch depth is up to 4 mm, and the diameter is up to 3 mm.

OWN CELLSAfter the biomaterials are collected, our team of biotechnologists will prepare a therapeutic dose of stem cells. In our laboratory, we will select stem cells from your sample, grow the required number of cells, test them, then create a stem cell product for your treatment. Usually, the production takes up to 21 days.
DONOR CELLSAccording to the doctor's prescription, the biotechnologist will select a ready-made and pre-tested sample of donor cells from our cryobank in the required quantity. In this case, cell injection can happen immediately after diagnosis and drug preparation.

During the first visit, you will consult a doctor and have instrumental, clinical, and laboratory checkups. If the doctor needs to clarify the disease and its course, you may be prescribed needle electromyography or stimulation combined with a needle. If necessary, you may be offered additional MRIs.

Based on the results of the checkup, the doctor may prescribe the drug therapy by intravenous infusion and intramuscular injection.

The doctor may prescribe endolumbar injection, intravenous cell therapy, and local injection of cells. It is recommended to repeat the injection once every 6 months.

You will be provided with a medical assessment report that states the diagnosis, the examination results (clinical, laboratory, and instrumental), the treatment process, and further recommendations. The doctor will examine you, select the necessary treatment, or adjust the one prescribed to you at the time of arrival at the clinic.

The results can be observed in 6 months after the treatment — you will see the improvement of the regenerative processes in the body.

Throughout the program, you will have a personal manager who will ensure the best communication between you and the clinic. After treatment, our patients are advised to maintain contact with us. We'll ask you to fill out a questionnaire in 3 and 6 months after the treatment to evaluate the progress and answer all questions.

Cell therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is not a contraindication to standard treatment. They can be held in parallel with each other. Medications can also be combined with cell therapy.

Stopping the process can be considered an improvement in the use of cell therapy in the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. In 3-6 months after cellular therapy the patient's condition is assessed, the presence of the disease and the increase in symptoms is checked. If there is no deterioration, then it is considered to be a positive effect of cell therapy, and the possibility of further therapy is considered. In case of deterioration and development of the disease, other treatment options are considered.

Common side effects from cell therapy include possible fever for several days, headaches for up to 7 days, and general weakness. There are also some risks associated with the procedure itself, such as endolumbar stem cell injection.