A Costa Rican clinic in the Escazú district of San José offering mesenchymal and Muse cell therapy for neurological, orthopaedic and metabolic conditions.
The Stem Cells Transplant Institute is a private clinic in the Escazú district of San José, Costa Rica. The site describes it as roughly 25 minutes from Juan Santamaría International Airport and gives both a Costa Rican landline and a United States toll-free number, which suggests a substantial share of its patients travel from abroad. It does not publish a full street address.
According to the site, the institute's main treatment is stem cell therapy using mesenchymal stem cells, which it says are obtained either from umbilical cord tissue — that is, allogeneic, from a donor — or from the patient's own adipose (fat) tissue, which would be autologous. It also lists Muse cell therapy and peptide therapy as separate offerings.
The conditions the site names are wide-ranging and cover several unrelated areas of medicine. They include neurological diagnoses such as autism, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury; cardiovascular and metabolic problems including type 1 and type 2 diabetes, heart disease, critical limb ischaemia and peripheral neuropathy; orthopaedic complaints such as osteoarthritis, degenerative disc disease and rheumatoid arthritis; and anti-ageing and erectile dysfunction. Readers should note that a single therapy offered across so broad a range of conditions is not the same as evidence that it works for any of them, and the site does not present outcome data.
The institute names its clinical and laboratory staff, including a medical officer, a chief laboratory manager and a chief nursing officer, and states that its founder, Dr Leslie Mesen, has died. It describes its laboratory as certified to ISO standards and working to current good manufacturing practice standards, and says it is licensed by the Costa Rican Ministry of Health. Prices are said to vary by condition and are not published on the pages read.
The site lists the following conditions as ones it treats; the breadth of the list is unusual and the site does not publish outcome data for any of them.
The site states that its stem cell therapy uses mesenchymal stem cells sourced either from umbilical cord tissue or from the patient's own fat tissue, and that Muse cells are offered as a separate therapy.
The staff page names the following clinical, laboratory and administrative staff.
The site describes a clinic in the Escazú district of San José with its own laboratory, which it says is ISO certified and works to current good manufacturing practice standards, and states that the institute is licensed by the Costa Rican Ministry of Health. It says staff are bilingual in English and Spanish, and positions the clinic as convenient for international patients at about 25 minutes from the main international airport. The staff page also refers to an operation in Cóbano, Costa Rica. No full street address, bed count or theatre detail is given on the pages read.
The site states that cost varies by condition and points readers to a separate cost guide rather than publishing figures on the pages read. No price is given for any individual 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.