The person who died in the over-hyped Canadian Freedman/Atkins HSCT study was involved in a further study...an AUTOPSY concluding: "We found evidence for ongoing active demyelination in all of the five patients."

Autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation fails to stop demyelination and neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis

"The autopsy cases were collected by Dr Kolar/Dr Azzarelli (Indianapolis, USA), Dr Freedman/Dr Atkins (Ottawa, Canada), Dr Lucchinetti/Dr Openshaw (Rochester, USA, two cases) and Dr Lassmann/Dr Garcia-Merino (Vienna, Austria and Madrid, Spain). General neuropathology did not show evidence of other confounding CNS pathologies such as viral or bacterial infections."

The present study analyses autopsy material from five multiple sclerosis patients who received autologous stem cell transplantation. A total of 53 white matter lesions were investigated using routine and immunohistochemical stainings to characterize the demyelinating activity, inflammatory infiltrat...