Add incontinence to the list of conditions that might one day be treated with stem cells. An Austrian study, presented at the American Urological Association meeting in Anaheim, looked at 184 people with stress incontinence. The researchers took blood and muscle cells from the patients' arms, and from these isolated fibroblasts and myoblasts -- stem cells that make connective tissue and muscle. The stem cells were grown in the lab for six or seven weeks, and then injected back into the participants' urethras and urethral sphincters. A year after treatment, 80% of the people were cured of incontinence, and the results did not appear to fade over time, USA Today reports. The newspaper quoted other experts who said the findings needed to be duplicated in other studies before stem cell injections could be considered as a treatment option for urinary incontinence.
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