Brain damaged girl, 5, gets sister's umbilical cord blood to help her recover

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Samantha Szura, 5, sustained life-altering brain damage after nearly drowning. Now, she is undergoing a cutting-edge treatment using her sister's umbilical cord blood.

Although their daughter had returned from the brink of death, the couple said they knew that her injuries meant a lifetime of limitations.The Szuras discovered a potentially breakthrough treatment that uses cord blood to help form new nerve connections in the brain – and luckily they had a supply of the blood that they saved when their first child, Allison was born.

Samantha became part of a cord blood study at Duke University. The study does not focus on stem cells, instead looking into the effects of a seperate component of the blood.

 

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