Florida Man Makes Remarkable Recovery After Stem Cell Therapy October 9, 2007
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Florida 10/09/2007 04:00 AM GMT (TransWorldNews - Top Story)
Richard Rzaca reports that his heart function has more than doubled from 25% to 52% just 5 months after receiving VesCell adult stem cell therapy in Bangkok, Thailand.
Before he contacted TheraVitae, the makers of VesCell last year, Richard Rzaca was a dying man. Richard had suffered a near fatal heart attack in 2003 and his condition had been going downhill since then. Richard described himself as “a dying horse.” “My color was gray, I couldn’t walk anywhere, and I was completely worn out,” he said. Richard’s ejection fraction (a measure of the heart’s pumping ability) was at 25%.
Richard was out of options. His doctors told him there was nothing they could do to help him back to the active lifestyle that he loved. That was when Richard made the decision to go for VesCell adult stem cell therapy in Thailand. In May, 2007, Richard was treated using his own stem cells derived from a simple, painless blood donation.
In October, 2007, 5 months later, Richard’s ejection fraction has jumped from 25% to 52%. “Now I feel just the opposite. I can’t stop moving. I’m doing what I want to do. I can walk around the house again. I can swim. I can go out and meet my friends. I feel like a 20 year old man!”
Richard had to travel to Thailand to receive his adult stem cell therapy as it isn’t available in the United States. Richard was surprised at what he found in Thailand. “It was a beautiful city, beautiful hospital, beautiful hotel, and beautiful people.”
Commenting on his treating cardiologist in Thailand, Dr. Suphachai Chaithiraphan, the President of the Thai Heart Association, Richard declared “One of the finest doctors I have ever run across. A more wonderful person I could never find. Also, the nurses were wonderful and the hospital was spotless!”
When asked if he would recommend Vescell adult stem cell therapy to others, he said “I would tell them ‘you gotta go to Thailand’ It was the best money I ever spent. What good is money if you are lying in a box 6 feet under?”
About TheraVitae:
TheraVitae is a private, multinational company focused on using stem cells from the patient’s own blood in order to treat a variety of disorders, especially cardiovascular diseases. The company has developed a proprietary stem cell technology, ‘VesCell’, that is currently being used by hospitals in Thailand and Singapore to treat patients with heart disease and peripheral artery disease.
VesCell — A Natural Treatment for Heart Disease and Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
The body has natural ways of healing itself and the cardiovascular system is no exception. Angiogenic Cell Precursors (ACPs) originate in bone marrow and then circulate in the blood vessels. To manufacture VesCell, TheraVitae expands a small number of ACPs harvested from about 250cc of blood into a therapeutic quantity. VesCell is injected either through a coronary artery via catheter, or during surgery, directly into the heart muscle.
A key aspect of VesCell therapy is the advanced cell isolation and expansion technique that allows for the ACPs to be harvested from blood collected in a procedure similar to a common blood donation. VesCell uses a patient’s own adult stem cells to treat Heart Disease and PAD and is a viable therapeutic possibility for heart or PAD patients without any other treatment option.
