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Urinary Incontinence
Patients' own stem cells used to cure SUI
December 23rd, 2004
Researchers in Austria are successfully treating incontinent women with the patients' own muscle-derived stem cells. The findings of the first clinical study of its kind were presented on November 29, 2004, at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America. "Urinary incontinence is a major problem for women and for an increasing number of men," said Ferdinand Frauscher, MD, associate professor of radiology at the Medical University of Innsbruck and the head of uroradiology at University Hospital. "We believe we have developed a long-lasting and effective treatment that is especially promising because it is generated from the...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-12-23)
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