| Literature DB >> 19198991 |
Shigeru Miyagawa1, Goro Matsumiya, Toshihiro Funatsu, Masao Yoshitatsu, Naozumi Sekiya, Shinya Fukui, Takaya Hoashi, Masatsugu Hori, Hideki Yoshikawa, Yuzuru Kanakura, Jun Ishikawa, Katsuyuki Aozasa, Naomasa Kawaguchi, Nariaki Matsuura, Akira Myoui, Akifumi Matsuyama, Sachiko Ezoe, Hidehiro Iida, Hikaru Matsuda, Yoshiki Sawa.
Abstract
Myocardial regeneration therapy shows great promise as a treatment for heart failure. We recently introduced combined autologous cellular cardiomyoplasty with skeletal myoblasts and bone marrow cells as a treatment for human ischemic cardiomyopathy. We report the results of our first clinical trial of this technique, used to treat a patient with severe heart failure caused by ischemic cardiomyopathy who was being managed with a left ventricular assist system (LVAS). After combined cell transplantation, the patient showed signs of improved cardiac performance and angiogenesis, and reduced fibrosis.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19198991 DOI: 10.1007/s00595-008-3803-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Surg Today ISSN: 0941-1291 Impact factor: 2.549