The Beneficial Effects Of Stem Cell Therapy On Lung Diseases

Here at SQ1 medical center, we provide you with a new treatment method that can deliver better outcomes than you ever imagined. Our stem cell therapy is a targeted treatment developed based on your specific condition, which not only improves the symptoms but also completely cures the disease at its very basis. With stem cell therapy, 23% of our patients reported partial improvement and 77% experienced significant improvement.

Stem cells therapy helps:

Promote the repair and regeneration of damaged lung tissue
Improve pulmonary microcirculation
Reduce cough, wheezing, and shortness of breath
Reduce the production of phlegm
Improve energy level and sleep quality
Improve chest tightness
Reduce the chance of respiratory failure
Reduce or eliminate lung inflammation

Lung Diseases That Stem Cell Therapy Can Treat

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Pulmonary fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis
Pulmonary hypertension
Bronchiolitis obliterans
Emphysema
Chronic bronchitis
Refractory asthma
Bronchiectasis
Secondary polycythemia
Pulmonary-heart disease
Lung rehabilitation after suffering COVID-19

Several clinical studies published in the medical community about stem cell therapy for lung diseases have shown that stem cell therapy has significant positive effects in inhibiting lung inflammation and improving and repairing lung damage. In those studies, the safety and efficacy of stem cell therapy have also been preliminarily demonstrated.

Learn More About Lung Diseases

The lung is one of the most complex organs in the human body, dozens of different types of cells have to coordinate precisely to ensure the normal function of the lung. The main function of the lung is to transport oxygen in the air into the blood and expel carbon dioxide in the blood to maintain the homeostasis of the human body. In addition to gas exchange, the lung also carries many functions such as immunity, hematopoiesis, and metabolism. The lung is an indispensable and critical organ in the human body.

Due to its structural complexity, the clinical diagnosis of lung disease is very difficult. Irreversible damage may have occurred at the time of the diagnosis. Among all the lung diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease has become the third leading cause of death in the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, by 2020, about 600 million people in the world are suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, its most significant symptom is difficulty breathing, in the late stage, it will develop into severe difficulty breathing even at rest, and eventually develop into respiratory failure and lead to death.

Risk Factors For Lung Diseases

Lung diseases are usually caused by internal and external factors. It will lead to pulmonary dysfunction and pathological changes. In daily life, there are many risk factors for lung diseases including:

Genetic factors: If you have congenital lung diseases, it is mainly related to genes and the early development process, such as congenital pulmonary hypoplasia, pulmonary sequestration, congenital lung air sacs, etc. A series of congenital diseases will lead to defective lung function, resulting in lung diseases.
Smoking: Smoking is a clinically recognized high-risk factor for lung disease since tobacco contains harmful chemical components, long-term smoking can damage airway epithelial cells and affect cilia movement, resulting in asthma, lung cancer, and other lung diseases.
Infection: Repeated infection by bacteria and viruses may cause pneumonia or induce respiratory failure. In addition, you may also develop respiratory infections and airway diseases which are also important causes of lung diseases.
Air pollution: Occupational lung disease has a higher occurrence in people who exposure to relatively dirty air in long term. For example, people working in coal mines and mines, who inhale dust and particles for a long time are more prone to occupational lung disease.
Disease factors: Aspiration pneumonia can be caused by choking and aspiration of abnormal particles or fluid. Other lung diseases can be triggered by organic diseases, such as diabetes, liver cirrhosis, etc., those diseases will lead to suppressed immune function and increase the risk of lung diseases.

Clinical Symptoms Of Lung Diseases

Symptoms of lung diseases often affect breathing and may include:

Cough
Hemoptysis (Coughing up blood)
Expectoration
Shortness of breath
Heavy breathing

Symptoms affecting other parts of the body may also suggest lung disease. People with lung disease may experience:

Chest pain or tightness
Clubbing (swelling of the tips of the fingers or toes)
Cyanosis (skin turns blue)

In addition, more common symptoms, such as fever, fatigue, exhaustion, or general unwellness may also suggest lung or airway disease. Some other symptoms, such as coughing or wheezing, may also indicate lung diseases. Disorders that involve nerves or muscles, such as myasthenia gravis and Guillain-Barre syndrome, can cause respiratory muscle weakness and pulmonary symptoms.

Advantages Of Stem Cell Treatment For Lung Diseases

Conventional treatment methods for lung diseases vary from disease to disease. Currently, major ways are drug therapy, and interventional therapy (such as surgical therapy). Each method has its scope of applications and contraindications. Many lung diseases are regarded as incurable in conventional medicine, such as COPD, pulmonary fibrosis, lung cancer, etc.. The treatment will only relieve the symptoms and pain, but cannot cure the diseases.

In contrast, stem cell therapy provides the possibility of regenerating damaged lung tissue. Compared with conventional therapy, stem cell therapy has incomparable advantages:

Stem cell therapy

Conventional treatment

Curative Treatment or diseases management

Stem cell therapy is a new way to cure lung diseases, which aims to repair or regenerate damaged lung tissue, help the lung to return to healthy states, and rebuild lung function.

If treated with stem cells at an early stage, it can reverse the damage to the lung and eliminate the drug dependence and even avoid surgery.

Conventional treatments for lung diseases include drug therapy and interventional therapy. Both therapies can only relieve symptoms such as inflammation and chest tightness but cannot completely cure lung diseases. Lung damage is known to be irreversible and is considered an incurable disease in conventional medicine.

Dosage

As the stem cells repair damaged lung tissue, you can gradually resume normal breathing with a reduced dose of medication, Drug dependence can be reversed if therapy was given at an early stage.

Stem cell experts based on your current level of disease and other comorbidities will design a customized protocol and decide, the number of stem cells, source of stem cells, and cycles of stem cell therapy.

Patients who are taking medications will find the dosage increases slowly and gradually, and the effect is less and more limited over time, patients may develop drug resistance gradually, and need to take a larger dose or switch to another stronger medication.

Side-effects

No Side-effects as stem cells are our cells that are used to treat the disease and regenerate lung tissue to regain proper functioning.

Medication intake may have some side effects on the gastrointestinal tract, liver, and nervous system, such as decreased appetite, liver damage, allergic reactions, etc.

Convenience

Stem cell therapy is performed by stem cell specialists which requires a special laboratory to process the stem cells and the medical set-up to extract and inject the stem cell. The therapy is going to be injection-based and needs to be performed in a hospital.

It’s relatively easy to take medications, but the patient needs to take them repeatedly every day, which is prone to the development of drug dependence.

Longevity

If treated in an early stage, in the long run, stem cell therapy can eliminate drug dependence, restore lung function, and return the patient to a healthy life. You can breathe normally and painless as the lung function return to normal If conducted in a later stage, stem cell therapy can still reduce drug dependence, and in rare cases, you might need several treatment regimens.

The effect of drug therapy is short-term, and it is necessary to take medications every day as prescribed. You need those medications for life.

End-stage

Stem cells are the fundamental part of our body, the main function of stem cells is to regenerate and repair damaged cells, produce new body cells thus repair and regenerate lung tissue thus delaying or avoiding the necessity to conduct surgery.

lung transplantation is the only treatment option for end-stage patients, but the high risk, limited donor, rejection reactions, and high cost are important concerning factors why patients are not receiving that treatment.

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How Can Stem Cell Therapy For Lung Diseases Work

Immunomodulatory effect: The results of multiple studies have shown that stem cells can alleviate pulmonary inflammation, reduce pulmonary edema, and reduce the concentration of pro-inflammatory factors and plasma protein content in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, which may be related to the direct or indirect adsorption of toxins, paracrine/autocrine factors by stem cells to decrease lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced up-regulation of anti-inflammatory factors.
Paracrine effect: Stem cells can paracrine/autocrine a variety of biologically active factors including transforming factors, cytokines, chemokines, etc. Thus, stem cells play a direct or indirect role in anti-inflammatory- immunomodulatory function, as well as clear alveolar fluid, repair and improving damaged structure and function of the alveolar-capillary barrier. Those are all important mechanisms for stem cell therapy for lung injury.
Multidirectional differentiation potential: Multi-directional differentiation potential is one of the important characteristics of stem cells. Exogenous stem cells can differentiate into lung-related functional cells (alveolar epithelial cells, pulmonary vascular endothelial cells, etc.), which directly repair or replace damaged tissue function. Additionally, stem cells may act through other mechanisms such as cell fusion and gene recombination.
Mitochondrial transfer: Normal mitochondria derived from stem cells can be transferred to cells with mitochondrial dysfunction through intercellular junctions through some mechanisms, therefore rebuilding the aerobic respiration function of these cells, allowing them to continue to survive and function. This is also one of the important mechanisms for stem cell therapy on lung injury.

SQ1 Stem Cell Services

During the whole treatment process, we’ll provide complete and first-class medical services to you. And to ensure your treatment effect, you can consult your doctor any time after the treatment.