{"id":3896,"date":"2015-11-04T12:29:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T12:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/?p=3896"},"modified":"2018-07-20T08:41:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T08:41:55","slug":"amazing-stem-cell-treatment-saves-kent-mans-leg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/2015\/11\/amazing-stem-cell-treatment-saves-kent-mans-leg\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing stem cell treatment saves Kent man’s leg"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Gillingham man who faced losing his leg in a climbing accident saw it saved thanks to a revolutionary ‘glue’ made from stem cells.<\/p>\n

Andrew Kent’s right leg was broken in five places by a falling boulder while he was climbing with his son in the Langdale Pikes in the Lake District in April. The 53-year-old was rushed to hospital in Carlisle, where the broken bones were pinned back together in three operations.<\/p>\n

But his leg was still in a bad condition and the wound became seriously infected. He was transferred to the Spire Alexandra Hospital in Chatham, where Anan Shetty, orthopaedic surgeon, performed the stem cell treatment: the first in Britain.<\/p>\n

It involved removing stem cells from the bone marrow in Mr Kent’s hip. The cells were then mixed with a collagen gel known as Cartfill.<\/p>\n

This formed a paste that was smeared into the fractures. His leg was then placed in a metal cage, gently squeezing the broken bones back together.<\/p>\n

Kent Messenger 17th December 2009<\/span><\/p>\n

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A Gillingham man who faced losing his leg in a climbing accident saw it saved thanks to a revolutionary ‘glue’ made from stem cells. Andrew Kent’s right leg was broken in five places by a falling boulder while he was climbing with his son in the Langdale Pikes in the Lake District in April. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3897,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12440,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3896\/revisions\/12440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cells4life.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}