A hospital-based cell therapy centre in Las Condes, Santiago, injecting umbilical cord mesenchymal stromal cells for osteoarthritis of the major joints.
The Centro de Terapia Celular is a cell therapy centre inside Clinica Universidad de los Andes, a teaching hospital in Las Condes, Santiago. Unlike most entries of its kind, it sits within a general hospital and draws on that hospital's orthopaedic and rheumatology departments.
According to the site, the centre's main treatment is a product called Cellistem OA, made of mesenchymal stromal cells derived from umbilical cord tissue and injected into the affected joint. The site describes this as the only clinically proven cell therapy for osteoarthritis of joints such as the knee, hip, ankle and hand. That is the clinic's own claim and the directory has not verified it; patients should not read it as a guarantee of benefit.
The conditions the site lists are all musculoskeletal: osteoarthritis and chondromalacia of the knee, osteoarthritis and avascular necrosis of the hip, cartilage lesions of the ankle, arthritis of the wrist and problems of the hand joints. The centre names a large team of orthopaedic surgeons and rheumatologists covering these areas.
The site states that the cells are made in what it describes as the most modern stem cell laboratory in Latin America, working to good manufacturing practice standards and certified to ISO 9001:2015, in partnership with the Chilean biotechnology company Cells for Cells. The pages read give no prices.
The site names the following joint problems as those the centre treats.
The site says the centre treats worn joints by injecting mesenchymal stromal cells grown from donated umbilical cord tissue, under the product name Cellistem OA.
The site lists more than twenty orthopaedic surgeons and rheumatologists attached to the centre, covering knee, hip, ankle, foot, hand and rheumatology, but the page read did not reproduce their names reliably enough to publish.
According to the site, the centre operates from Clinica Universidad de los Andes at Avda. Plaza 2501 in Las Condes, Santiago. The cells are prepared in a laboratory the site describes as the most modern stem cell laboratory in Latin America, said to work to good manufacturing practice standards and to hold ISO 9001:2015 certification. The directory has not verified these certifications.
The page read gives no prices and says nothing about the cost of treatment.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.