Released on = July 25, 2007, 9:37 pm

Press Release Author = Jon Bradshaw

Industry = Biotech

Press Release Summary = SUMMARY: A New York woman, who derived immediate benefits
from adult stem cell therapy in Bangkok and who four months later can do what she
likes, counsels heart failure patients not to delay.



Press Release Body = BANGKOK, Thailand, 26 July 2007 - Root canal treatment that got
infected nearly destroyed the life a of New York woman. From a healthy, active life
she got to the point where she could not breathe as the infection settled in her
heart. Her valve stopped working and her heart began to fail.

Her doctors initially thought she had pneumonia but discovered the real problem and
rushed her to have an urgent valve repair. She spent the following months in a state
of constant tiredness and grew sick of being tired all the time. Then for some three
months she improved and she was able to return to dancing. But it was not to last.
Three months later she started to go downhill again so started to search for help.

She read about Theravitae and the success they were having treating patients with
heart failure, ischemic heart disease and cardiomyopathy using their own adult stem
cells. After receiving all the information she was half-way to her decision. The
deciding factor came when she could not pick up her grandson at Thanksgiving. "In
that one instant, when he asked me to pick him up and I couldn't, my mind was made
up," she said.

"What do you know about stem cells?" she asked her doctor. "They are doing great
things with them, but not here," he replied. Shown all the information he said: "I
don't want you to think that this is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. If
it works it's going to work, but if it doesn't work then it's not going to work but
you'll be no worse off than you are now."

With her family's blessing, after they had researched and got answers to their many
questions, she came to Bangkok's prestigious Bangkok Heart Hospital, where she found
that her daughter who accompanied her was escorted everywhere she wanted to go and
that the hospital care she received was exceptional. "I never had a nurse at home
pat my hand and tell me I was going to be all right. I needed somebody to tell me
that," she said. "Do whatever you have to do to have this done, because immediately
you can breathe again. I can blow the little ball on the blowing machine and
exercise twice a day on a bicycle without any pain. It's just great and if it's this
great now imagine what it's going to be like in three months time!"

Today, four months later, Ann feels as well as she did before she got ill. She can
dance and swim and her future looks very bright. Her cardiologist cannot believe how
well she is and sees her progress as, 'the future of medicine'. Her Ejection
Fraction (a clinical measure of the heart's pumping efficiency) has risen
dramatically and she only has to stop her treadmill exercises when her legs give out
- not her heart. Her three-lead defibrillator has been replaced with a one-lead one
and she looks back at her motivation to seek adult stem cell therapy being to be
able to lift her grandson. "Now I can not only pick him up but I can carry him
upstairs!" she exclaims.




Web Site = http://VesCell.com

Contact Details = Theravitae,
36/72 P.S. Tower, Sukhumvit 21, Klongtoey-Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10400, THAILAND
PH:6626644290 Fax: 662 664 4289
EMail:jon@theravitae.com