Cell Therapy for Perinatal Brain Injury

This book provides a wealth of insights, advances and new perspectives on cell therapy for different types of neonatal ischemic disease, such as Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE), Periventricular Leukomalacia (PVL) and neonatal infarction.
These diseases pose serious challenges for neonatologists and neurologists, because the severe sequelae lead to decreasing QOL for patients and their families. Accordingly, new treatments for neonatal ischemic diseases are needed all over the world.
The book develops new effective therapies combined with hypothermia therapy, an established treatment for HIE. After reviewing past approaches, it presents cutting-edge topics in cell therapy, one of the most promising candidates for treating neonatal ischemic disease. Cell Therapy for Neonatal Ischemic Disease will offer readers a better understanding of the current state of the art in this field from bench to bedside, and inspire researchers and physicians to further explore this evolving therapy.

Haruo Shintaku

Department of Pediatrics,

Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine,

Osaka

Japan

Akira Oka

Department of Pediatrics,

University of Tokyo, 

Tokyo

Japan

Makoto Nabetani, 

Department of Pediatrics,

Yodogawa Christian Hospital, 

Osaka,

Japan