We know that stem cells cure diseases that were once thought to be incurable. These are the building blocks of the human body and can be obtained from different sources.
Embryonic stem cells, adult stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells, and prenatal stem cells are examples of different stem cells. Many parents resolve to store their newborn’s stem cells as the list of diseases treated with stem cells is growing.
A Quick List of Diseases that can be Cured by Stem Cells:
Different Types of Leukaemia:
- Acute Biphenotypic Leukaemia
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia
- Acute Myelogenous Leukaemia
- Acute Undifferentiated Leukaemia
- Chronic Myelogenous Leukaemia
- Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia
- Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukaemia
- Juvenile Chronic Myelogenous Leukaemia
Different Types of Myeloproliferative Neoplasms:
- Acute Myelofibrosis
- Agnogenic Myeloid Metaplasia
- Essential Thrombocythemia
- Polycythemia Vera
Different Types of Myelodysplastic Syndromes:
- Refractory Anaemia
- Refractory Anaemia with Excess Blasts
- Refractory Anaemia with Excess Blasts in Transformation
- Refractory Anaemia with Ringed Sideroblasts (Sideroblastic Anaemia)
- Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukaemia
Different Types of Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID):
- Omenn Syndrome
- Reticular Dysgenesis
- SCID with Adenosine Deaminase Deficiency (ADA SCID)
- SCID which is, X, linked
- SCID with the absence of T & B Cells
- SCID with the lack of T Cells, Normal B Cells
Different Types of Neutropenias:
- Kostmann Syndrome (Infantile Genetic Agranulocytosis)
- Myelokathexis
Different Types of Phagocyte Disorders:
- Chediak Higashi Syndrome
- Chronic Granulomatous Disease
- Neutrophil Actin Deficiency
Different Types of Inherited Disorders of the Immune System and Organs:
- Cartilage Hair Hypoplasia
- Gunther’s Disease (Congenital Erythropoietic Protoporphyria)
- Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome
- Pearson’s Syndrome
- Shwachman Diamond Syndrome
- Systemic Mastocytosis
Different Types of Inherited Immune Disorders:
- Bare Lymphocyte Syndrome
- Common Variable Immunodeficiency
- DiGeorge Syndrome
- Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis
- IKK Gamma Deficiency3 (NEMO Deficiency)
- IPEX Syndrome4
- Leukocyte Adhesion Deficiency
- Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome
- X linked Lymphoproliferative Disease (Duncan’s Syndrome)
- Ataxia-Telangiectasia
Different Types of Leukodystrophy Disorders:
- Adrenoleukodystrophy
- Krabbe Disease (Globoid Cell Leukodystrophy)
- Metachromatic leukodystrophy
- Pelizaeus-Merzbacher Disease
Different Types of Lysosomal Storage Diseases:
- Pick Disease
- Sandhoff Disease
- Wolman Disease
Different Types of Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) Storage Diseases:
- Hunter Syndrome
- Hurler Syndrome
- Maroteaux Lamy Syndrome
- Mucolipidosis II (I-cell disease)
- Morquio Syndrome
- Sanfilippo Syndrome
- Scheie Syndrome
- Sly Syndrome (beta-glucuronidase deficiency)
Different Types of Anaemias:
- Aplastic Anaemia
- Congenital Dyserythropoietic Anaemia
- Fanconi’s Anaemia
- Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
Different Types of Inherited Red Cell Abnormalities:
- Pure Red Cell Aplasia
- Sickle Cell Anaemia
- Beta Thalassemia Major/Cooley’s Anaemia
- Diamond Blackfan Anaemia
Different Types of Inherited Platelet Abnormalities:
- Congenital Amegakaryocytosis Thrombocytopenia
- Glanzmann’s Thrombasthenia
Different Types of Solid Tumors:
- Hodgkin Lymphoma
- Neuroblastoma
- Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (Burkitt’s Lymphoma)
- Retinoblastoma
- Medulloblastoma
Other Blood Cancers Like:
- Multiple Myeloma
- Plasma Cell Leukaemia
- Waldenstrom’s Macroglobulinemia
Other Metabolic Disorders Like:
- Lesch–Nyhan Syndrome
- Osteopetrosis
Clinical Trials:
Clinical trials are helping research and validate the untapped potential of stem cells. With technology’s help and improved medical understanding of stem cells, there can be multiple other diseases that stem cells can cure.
A decrease in the disease progression or complete cure can guarantee the future scope of stem cell treatment. Hence, the diseases stem cells can cure can be more than ever known.
The following is the list of the diseases that are undergoing clinical trials currently for the effectiveness of stem cells treatment:
- Acute Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack)
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
- Aging Frailty
- Alopecia Areata
- Alzheimer’s Disease
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Autism
- BronchoPulmonary Dysplasia (BPD)
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cartilage injury
- Cerebral palsy
- Cleft Palate Repair
- Critical Limb Ischemia
- Crohn’s disease
- Diabetes, Type 1
- Diabetes, Type 2
- Diabetic Foot Ulcer
- Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
- Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
- Eczema (Atopic Dermatitis)
- Encephalopathy
- Epidermolysis Bullosa
- Erectile Dysfunction
- Eye Diseases
- Fistula
- Gaucher’s Disease
- Global Developmental Delay
- Graft versus Host Disease (GvHD)
- Hearing Loss (acquired sensorineural)
- Heart Failure
- Hereditary Ataxia
- HIV
- Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome
- Intraventricular Hemorrhage
- Ischemic Heart Disease
- Kidney Failure
- Liver cirrhosis
- Liver Failure
- Lupus
- Lysosomal Storage Diseases
- Metabolic Syndrome
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Non-Union Fractures
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteochondral Lesion
- Ovarian Cancer
- Parkinson’s Disease
- Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
- Peyronie’s Disease
- Premature Ovarian Failure
- Psoriasis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency
- Spinal cord injury
- Spinal Fusion Surgery
- Spinal muscular atrophy
- Stroke
- Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects
- Systemic Sclerosis
- Tay-Sachs Disease
- Testicular Tumour
- Traumatic Brain Injury
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Uterine Scars
- Wounds
There is a lot of research on exploring how stem cells can be used to treat diseases. It is anticipated that in the future, stem cell therapies will be used to cure many types of diseases for which there are no active treatments at the moment.
