Source: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: March 1, 2006
BY JIM RITTER Health Reporter
The heart is seldom the same after a heart attack.
After a blood clot shuts off blood flow in a coronary artery, heart muscle dies. Many survivors wind up with irregular heartbeats, congestive heart failure or repeat heart attacks.
In a new approach to treating heart disease, researchers are trying to reverse the damage by growing new heart muscle with stem cells.
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