Advance in Treating AMI patients

First Patients Receive Cardiac Stem Cells for Treatment of MI

Doctors in the US have injected autologous cardiac stem cells into patients for the first time, with two people out of a planned 24 having received the treatment following an MI [1].

"This is the first time we have injected cardiac-specific cells into a human," investigator Dr Raj R Makkar (Cedars Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, CA) told heartwire . "These cells are destined to be heart-muscle cells, so this is attractive in that sense--we are trying to obtain cardiogenesis." Preclinical experiments suggest that the cells, known as cardiosphere-derived cells, do develop into cardiac myocytes, he noted.........

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