NAME: Laura

COUNTRY: Romania

AGE: 7

DIAGNOSIS: Rett Syndrome

REASON FOR COMING FOR TREATMENT:
Laura was born with Rett Syndrome, a rare genetic disease that causes a neurodevelopmental disorder which is marked by loss of purposeful use of the limbs, balance difficulties and language and socialization developmental problems similar to Autism. Like other children with Rett Syndrome Laura seemed like a healthy child for the first year of her life. By the time she was one year old, she was starting to talk and was able to move around by herself. However in the second year of her life, she started to regress. Both her motor and linguistic skills started to get worse and Laura largely lost most of the abilities she had learned.

TREATMENT: Umbilical cord stem cell and nerve growth factor injections with rehabilitation therapy