Stem Cell Therapy - Ardent Animal Health

Regenerative cells are powerful healing cells in your body that can become other types of cells.There are many adult regenerative cells in fat tissue, however they are asleep. Ardent AnimalHealth’s regenerative cell therapy allows your vet to isolate regenerative cells from an animal’s ownfat tissue, wake them up, and reinject them directly into damaged areas. For example, in the case ofarthritis, regenerative cells become new cartilage cells, thus reducing pain and increasing mobility.

Regenerative cells treat the source of the problem by becoming new tissue to replace damagedtissue. Other treatments, such as NSAIDs, merely attempt to reduce symptoms. The treatment is avery low risk because it uses the animal’s own regenerative cells. With Ardent Animal Health’stechnology, over 95% of animals treated show improvement.

Regenerative cell therapy for animals has been commercially available since 2004. Ardent Animal Health started selling their kits in the US in 2010, to clinics on the mainland, and thousands of animals have been treated around the world. An Ardent Animal Health representative now lives in Hawaii and began introducing it to clinics here in 2012.

For pet owners, there are two main advantages to Ardent Animal Health. First, the processing is all done in your vet’s office, so you don’t need to worry about losing your sample during shipping, or the sample heating up and getting damaged. Also, Ardent Animal Health allows your vet to do the entire procedure in one day, making it very convenient for you and your pet. While all companies are equally safe, Ardent Animal Health has the highest reported success rate of greater than 95%.When comparing side by side, vets chose Ardent Animal Health because of the superior results.

Yes, this procedure is very safe. The biggest risk is using anesthetic, to remove the fat tissue. On a typical dog, this is easier than a spay, and the fat is collected in about 15 minutes by your vet. Processing the sample is done carefully by a highly trained Ardent Animal Health representative (or by a lab tech carefully trained by that representative). In the thousands of animals treated, we have not observed any negative side-effects from Ardent Animal Health’s Regenerative cell therapy

First, your vet will put your pet under general anesthetic. Then, he/she will make a small incision and collect 2-4 tablespoons of fat (either in the belly or behind the shoulder blades). Since your pet is under anesthetic, this is a great opportunity to do anything else needed – spay/neuter, or dental for example. Your local, highly trained Ardent Animal Health representative will then process the sample, right in the clinic, using Ardent Animal Health equipment. After about 3 hours, the cells are ready for injection into areas of damage. In addition, some cells are administered IV. For the administration step, your pet will either not be sedated at all, locally anesthetized with ethyl chloride spray, or lightly sedated, depending on what is best for your pet. You can pick up your pet later that same day.

We recommend that the patient be kept quiet for the first 10 days. Then, while they may feel a lotbetter, you will need to be careful so your pet does not injure themselves until they build up some oftheir muscles. Swimming and walking in water are great therapy. We typically see improvementstarting after 3 weeks, and then continuing up to around 2 months.

Our typical patient has osteoarthritis (hip dysplasia, degenerative joint disease, calcifications, common degeneration, and inflammation), soft tissue injuries (cruciate injuries, tears, ruptures, inflammation), or needs accelerated healing of fractures. We know a lot about these conditions, and over 95% of these patients get better, with Ardent Animal Health’s Regenerative Cell Therapy.

We also treat other cases under “compassionate use”. We know less about these conditions but are seeing some exciting results. Some of those conditions are degenerative myelopathy, feline gingivitis, end-stage renal disease, liver and kidney failure, allergy, auto-immune, inflammatory bowel disease, pulmonary fibrosis, IMHA, atopy, and spine trauma. Please talk to your vet if you have questions about any of these conditions.

We typically see about 1-3 years of relief after the initial treatment. Most pet owners chose to bank cells, so retreatment is easy. Ardent Animal Health has a banking facility in Kentucky. If symptoms return, your vet merely requests a dose of cells from Ardent Animal Health and injects them. No surgery is necessary.

Yes. Because we do not know exactly what happens when cancer patients are treated with Regenerative cells based on human studies, we do not treat those patients.