Katie Pulling spent the majority of her years suffering from an illness with a wide variety of symptoms no doctor could diagnose. Medical professionals tried TONS of treatments to no avail in abating her symptoms. However, the solution finally came when she contracted a severe case of fulminant infectious mononucleosis (FIM), a rare disease that appeared to somehow be linked to all of her other illnesses. Doctors suspected that her immune system was not reacting to the disorders properly, leading to a ton of unclear symptoms.
The final solution was to replace her current immune cells with transplanted stem cells. The procedure was dangerous, but the results fixed her immune system, further emphasizing the potential for experimental stem cell transplants as a means of curing illness, even those that baffle the best of doctors.
Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100517091827.htm
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