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Byline: John Fauber
Nov. 11--ORLANDO, Fla.--The first rigorous trial using a patient's own bone marrow stem cells to repair the heart significantly improved its pumping ability, according to a study presented in Orlando Monday.
Several earlier uncontrolled trials had raised the hope that adult stem cells, as opposed to those that are derived from embryos, might offer a "fountain of youth" for damaged hearts. However, until now there had been no randomized, blinded trials to test that theory.
German scientists Monday said 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 one of several groups reporting encouraging heart findings from early adult stem cell trials.…
Source: HighBeam Research, German Study Uses Patient's Own Stem Cells to Repair Heart.