Source: University of Utah Health Sciences
Date: July 8, 2008
Summary:
People with a form of peripheral vascular disease so severe that it can lead to leg amputations might be able to use their own stem cells to remedy the problem. The University of Utah recently was selected as a site in a nationwide trial of the experimental treatment and U of U medical researchers are looking for participants with critical limb ischemia, a severe obstruction of the arteries that feed blood to the legs, according to Larry W. Kraiss, M.D., professor and chief of vascular surgery at the School of Medicine and lead Utah investigator in the trial. To be eligible for the trial, participants must have exhausted all other treatment options, he said.
