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Article: Bone marrow cells may help with variety of cardiac treatments: the use of bone marrow stem cells to repair damaged tissue helps the heart grow new blood vessels.(BREAKTHROUGHS)
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- Heart Advisor
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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The use of bone marrow cells to treat heart disease could move from the experimental phase and into clinical application within the next several years, as researchers move closer to developing treatments for a variety of cardiac problems.
Cleveland Clinic cardiologist Marc Penn, MD, PhD, a leading researcher in stem cell therapy, says he's confident that heart patients around the world could start to experience improved heart function triggered by bone marrow cells harvested from their own bodies. Typically, the bone marrow cells are taken from the pelvic bone.
"Bone marrow cells help grow new blood vessels and release factors into the heart that allow ...