Dr. Matías Fernández Viña, MD/cPhD
Stem Cell Therapy Argentina offers one of the most advanced therapeutic alternatives in medicine for the regeneration of articular cartilage of the knee. The implantation of Mesenchymal Cells from the patient’s own Adipose Tissue is a safe and potentially effective treatment for the control of degenerative osteoarthritis of the Knee.
In order for this procedure to be carried out with the greatest possible success for the patient, the 3 key steps to develop it are fundamental:
Extraction: This is how we obtain the source of the stem cells.
Processing and quality: this is how we process the sample obtained by source to maximize the number of stem cells.
Re-injection: this is the technique we use to ensure that the maximum injection of stem cells is in the precise place where they should be placed.
Let’s take a closer look at these steps…
1. Extraction:
It is the first of the three steps for regenerative therapy to work successfully. It consists of correctly removing the adipose tissue through a technique called LAM, where it is performed under local anesthesia. This procedure is always performed in a sterile room in an average of 15 minutes.
With this clear we can focus on the next step:
2. The processing and quality of mesenchymal stem cells.
Now that we have our LAM, the second step is to process and get rid of the part of the tissue that we do not need so that we can get the ideal concentrations of mesenchymal stem cells.
These are the ones that will give us the quality of the regenerative treatment. This is done by ULTRA advanced technology, in which we fragment 40 ml of adipose tissue to only 3 or 4 ml of hyperconcentrated mesenchymal cells with regenerative potential of the joints.
Once we have completed the process, we can focus on the final step:
3. Reinjection.
Most regenerative medicine doctors don’t know the stem cell dosage. This is quite strange and common, since in no other area of medicine is it acceptable to be unaware of the amount of substance being injected. It would be like prescribing ibuprofen for a headache without knowing the specific dosage. In fact, in most areas of medicine, not knowing the dosage would be considered medical negligence.
Therefore, at Stem Cell Therapy Argentina, we count the number of stem cells and have research on how many and which cells specifically we need for osteoarthritis treatments.
Re-injecting the patient’s stem cells into the affected area is one of the most important steps. It often happens that some treatments do not work because of incorrectly performed injections.
We do this by precisely targeting the problem areas. This is a very advanced technique that requires extensive training in image-guided injection using ultrasound or fluoroscopy—essentially, like a live X-ray.
Most physicians perform this step blindly, that is, without seeing live where they inject the cellular product, which means that without guidance you cannot see exactly where the injection is.
The physicians at STEM CELL THERAPY ARGENTINA on the other hand, use image guidance, and this allows us to not only be sure that we are injecting in the precise location, but also provides us with additional diagnostic capabilities.
It is important to note that the general practitioner does not know how to perform these complex image-guided procedures, so significant prior training is required before injecting a regenerative product into a joint, and also an understanding of how that product works.
The result?
At STEM CELL THERAPY ARGENTINA everything is very different… from how we obtain the cell sources, how we process them and how we re-inject them.
And that means a better outcome for you looking to improve your quality of life.
