Source: Daily Mail
Posted: 7 November 2006
Summary:
Emergency heart attack patients will be injected with their own bone marrow stem cells in a dramatic new treatment. The procedure, being pioneered by British doctors, holds out hope of a 'cure' as the stem cells repair damaged heart muscles. It is intended to stop patients suffering further attacks and developing heart failure, something existing treatments fail to do in many cases, and could be given within a few hours of a heart attack.
Commentary: If this trial yields successful results, maybe wider trials with larger and more diverse patient populations can be conducted and hopefully will continue to be successful.
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