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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Use stem cells to repair heart

The use of stem cells in medicine never ceases to amaze, and it is now, a group of scientists has managed to repair damaged heart tissue of a patient, in your own heart cells.

This is the first time you do something well, as published in the medical journal The Lancet . In the preliminary study was conducted in the United States, found that the use of stem cells for this purpose also improved the heart's pumping ability . Scientists Brigham Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the University of Louisville explained that similar tests had been performed only on animals but on this occasion, the study was conducted in human patients with heart failure who were undergoing surgery for coronary bypass them. The process of this repair tissue heart is in detail described in an article published by BBC World . Patients were extracted a portion of heart tissue to isolate and grow stem cells from this sample. Then, these new cells are injected into patients. According to the researchers, the 14 patients receiving this treatment showed a significant improvement in heart pumping.

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