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Stem Cells Improve Heart Function

Washington Times:

The first rigorous test using a patient's own bone marrow stem cells to repair a heart has significantly increased the organ's pumping ability.

German scientists meeting in Orlando, Fla., announced this week they had successfully extracted about 2.5 billion bone marrow cells each from the hips of 30 new heart attack patients and infused the cells into a coronary artery.

The researchers were among several groups detailing encouraging heart findings from early adult stem cell trials.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that after six months, those in the German study who received the cell therapy had about a 7 percent improvement in their heart's pumping ability, compared with 1 percent among those who did not receive the cells.

Posted by Timothy Fredel at November 12, 2003 3:32 PM | TrackBack
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