Celular Clinic

FAQ

Joan Oliveras

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¿Por qué visita Celular Clinic?

Bueno, yo hacía tiempo que tenía problemas en la rodilla, dolores. Entonces, mi médico de cabecera me indicó varios tratamientos con ácido hialurónico, o algo por el estilo, que no me funcionaron. Pero me dijo que había un tratamiento alternativo que se estaba experimentando, que era de pago, lógicamente, pero que podía tener buenos resultados. Entonces intenté enterarme un poquito de cómo funcionaba todo esto. Me gustó la idea.

¿A qué se dedicaba profesionalmente?

Bueno, yo profesionalmente he sido técnico de telecomunicaciones, pero a nivel de hobby lo que me ha gustado siempre ha sido la montaña. Uno de los motivos por los que vine a este país fue justamente para estar cerca de la montaña: para hacer travesías, para correr, para pasear, en fin, para estar en la montaña. Entonces quizá de ahí me viene un poquito el problema. El problema que tuve.

¿Cómo le afectó la lesión y qué limitaciones tenía?

Bueno, cuando llevaba un cierto tiempo caminando o corriendo, empezaba a notar molestias que acababan siendo un dolor. Un dolor no muy agudo, pero sí un poco limitante.

¿Cómo se encuentra a día de hoy, cinco años después del tratamiento con células madre?

Perfecto, perfecto. Lo que no he hecho o no he insistido ha sido en correr, lo que es ejercicio de impacto, pero por un tema de temor a que se reproduzca otra vez la lesión. Pero, en sí, la rodilla no me ha vuelto a molestar nunca más. O sea, ahora mismo ando mucho, hago gimnasio, voy al gimnasio, hago pesas, y no tengo ningún tipo de problema: sentadillas, rumana, en fin, todo el elenco de ejercicios de piernas. Quizá también el hecho de reforzar ha ayudado al tratamiento, pero el caso es que ahora mismo estoy, te diría, que a un 99%.

¿Qué actividades realiza en la actualidad?

Bueno, en la actualidad, ahora ya estoy jubilado, por suerte, y lo que hago es pasear, sigo haciendo una pequeña travesía y cuidar de mi familia. Y cuidar de mí.

¿Ha vuelto a tener dolor de rodilla?

No, en ningún momento.

¿Recomienda el tratamiento en Celular Clinic?

Absolutamente, absolutamente. Bueno, todo fue muy fluido, fue agradable. En el momento de la extracción de células madre quizá fue el punto donde era un poco más complicado, por el hecho de que tenía que haber una hospitalización, un tratamiento un poco invasivo. Pero bueno, fue durante una semana que estuve pendiente de lo que me habían hecho.
Después, a partir de ahí, ya lo que era la implantación de las células madre en la rodilla fue puro trámite, no tuve ningún problema. Y ya está. Ya lo he olvidado. La verdad, es parte de la historia de mi vida.

Francisco Martí Burjons

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I’m Paco Marti Bjun. I have been a salesman all my life. The job was in textile sales. I am retired.

What limitations did you have with osteoarthritis of the knee?

I’ve been retired for 12 years now. I used to walk twice a week, sometimes once a week, in the mountains, on trails, along canals in the mountains. And I had to gradually stop doing this.
That is to say, every Tuesday when I went out, my knee hurt more. But it wasn’t sudden — it was a slow process. Slow, but within a few weeks or a few months, and I had to stop doing this activity because I couldn’t.
I would walk three blocks, reach a square, and have to stop halfway, after three street corners, because I couldn’t. I would go down the stairs step by step because I couldn’t go down normally without leaning on the wall or the handrail.
All of this was progressive, but quite fast.

What motivates you to take stem cell treatment?

Through comments with a person who is very connected to this laboratory, they mentioned that I could do some tests and undergo this treatment. I had no problems at all. None. Neither with the liposuction nor with the final result. No. Fine. Very well.
Sorry. A comment I would like to make is that I was a bit surprised — in a positive way — by the caution of the doctor who injected my knee.The syringe — nothing, just a tiny prick. The cleanliness that was maintained — an exaggeration.

When did you start to notice improvement?

In a few days, as I mentioned about the stairs, I started to notice, going down the stairs — especially going down — that I was going down differently.Differently. I no longer had to hold on to the handrail so much. I would say that in a few weeks, I was going down normally, without supporting myself, and going down normally. And this was very significant for me.The same with the bicycle, because I was able to ride the bicycle again and spend quite a bit of time on it.

Would you recommend having stem cell treatment at Celular Clinic?

Try it — because I also had my doubts. What happened was that the person who recommended it to me — well, they had a lot of knowledge about the treatment, and I tried it.
But, well, I also thought: if it doesn’t work out, then it doesn’t work out.
That is, for the final solution, there was always time — to cut here or do whatever, I don’t know what operation — there was always time.
So, I decided to try it, and I would recommend this. I’ve been doing it for three years, and I’m perfect.

 

 

Àngels Mach Buch

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My name is Àngels Mach Buch. I am 67 years old. I am a pharmacist specialist in clinical analysis, but I have dedicated 33 years to office pharmacy. And I am the president of the Andor Society uh of sciences, which is a nonprofit cultural scientific association dedicated to organizing conferences, seminars, congresses.

What other medical solutions had you tried before stem cell treatment?

I had tried physiootherapy. I had tried hyaluronic acid infiltrations, nine in each knee, three at a time, also corticooid infiltrations, but they lasted for a while and then the pain would return.

How do you know about Celular Clinic and what motivates you to have the treatment?

Being the president of the Andor Society of Sciences after the death of my spouse, I usually attend the research seminars held at the University of Andorra. I went and attended one of the seminars where Dr. Boada was presenting the progress of her doctoral thesis and I saw uh that this was really a good idea for me to try and to contribute to the clinical trial.

When did you notice improvement?

It was really a very good idea because after a month I already noticed a significant improvement in both knees and the pain index had decreased uh uh by two units and it was really an improvement that I noticed right from the start and that has continued to improve over time.
After a year it had already improved a lot and right now four years later I can really make efforts that I hadn’t been able to do for many years before.

4 years have passed. How would you describe your current condition and how has your quality of life changed?

I have improved a lot.
My knees had no cartilage. The left knee, it didn’t have any. No, it didn’t have any. And uh the right knee had a small piece which was what threw me off balance. And after the treatment, besides the pain, I have been able to exert more effort than I could initially in the first month. So during the first year, I was even able to sit on the beach this summer when I couldn’t sit before. I had to kneel and turn around of course because I have really improved a lot.

Do you think this procedure could be beneficial for other patients with osteoarthritis of the knee?

I am very happy to have undergone the treatment and I recommend it to everyone who has pain especially those who have tried other methods and haven’t really improved because maybe it may not work for everyone but you have to try it because the improvement is really considerable.

 

 

Dr. Boada presents her doctoral thesis “Evaluation of the efficacy of treatment with the stromal vascular fraction in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee: an experimental study with a control group”.

Ana Boada Presentacio tesi UDA

On Wednesday 19 June, Dr. Boada will defend her doctoral thesis entitled “Evaluation of the efficacy of treatment with the stromal vascular fraction in patients with osteoarthritis of the knee: an experimental study with a control group” at the University of Andorra. The doctor from the medical team of Celular Clinic has been studying the effectiveness of treatment with mesenchymal cells in the pathology of osteoarthritis of the knee for more than five years. The thesis evaluates the therapeutic effect of the vascular stromal fraction (Celstem treatment) in 70 knees and compares it with a group of patients (control group) who, despite being candidates for treatment, did not receive it. The work consisted of analysing the changes in pain and functional status of the patient before and up to one year after treatment. In addition, the magnetic resonance images taken before the treatment were compared with the images taken after one year, in order to measure and evaluate the changes that the cartilage underwent after the Celstem treatment. The doctoral thesis was co-directed by the renowned biologist Dr. Anna Veiga Lluch and the rehabilitation doctor, Dr. Mercè Avellanet Viladomat, also a member of the medical team of Celular Clinic Andorra.

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