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Acute heart patients to receive own stem cells.

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| November 08, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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Heart attack patients will be given a groundbreaking new treatment involving an injection of their own stem cells to attempt to repair the damage their hearts have suffered, it was announced today.

Fifty cardiac patients at two London hospitals will have the stem cells extracted from their bone marrow and injected into their hearts, when they are brought in suffering from an acute heart attack.

The doctors involved in the clinical trials believe the treatment should delay or prevent the onset of heart failure. It is hoped that the stem cells, which have the ability to develop into a range of cells, will repair the damage to…

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