by April G
A team of University of Louisville doctors are conducting the world’s first FDA approved clinical trial using cardiac stem cells. Patients who are already undergoing bypass surgery will recruited. The procedure will use stem cells taken from the patient’s own cardiac tissue.
After a few months of recovery, the stem cells will be put into the scar tissue. For a year the patient’s heart function and blood flow will be monitored and the heart size and scar tissue size will be measured. The hope and goal is that the stem cells will help the heart tissue grow, reduce the scar tissue and improve heart function.
Source: Medical News Today
1) Once this procedure is completed and measured for a year, has it worked? Has it helped and restored heart function?
2) If it has, what can further be done with cardiac stem cells in this same manner to help heart problems?
