This was the original promise of
stem cells when they were first discovered over twenty years ago. Now we have a proof of principal
demonstration and we now have a working protocol. They actually helped several victims.
We can now look forward to the
real stem cell revolution in the last five years of this decade.
You will go and be injected with
a measured amount of tailored stem cells and maybe even larger doses of
untailored stem cells in order to resolve and replace damaged tissue. It should be that simple from the victim’s
perspective.
The take home is that congestive
heart failure will become curable. Liz
Taylor was a decade too soon for this life extension technique.
Recall most folks are suffering
from heart disease and its related
issues as they enter their eighties.
Stem cells reverse damage in enlarged hearts
March 17, 2011 — 9:35pm ET | By Howard Lovy
Having a big heart is not necessarily a good thing, if you take the
phrase literally. Patients with enlarged hearts due to damage from heart
attacks are lucky to be alive, yet face a lifetime of hospitalizations and medication.
However, new hope for these patients comes from researchers looking into stem
cell injections.
Writing in the journal Circulation Research: Journal of the
American Heart Association, scientists show in a small study that stem cell
therapy can reverse heart damage in patients with enlarged hearts due to heart
attacks. In addition, the benefits from the stem cell injections appear to be
three times better than that offered by current medical treatments, according
to a release. Scar tissue decreased and heart function improved, the scientists
from the University
of Miami
In an interview with the Miami
"That's the Holy Grail, the quest the whole field has been
pursuing for close to a decade, and this is evidence we're on the right
track," Hare told the Herald.
A participant in the small eight-person trial, Max Eaton, 68, seconded
that emotion. "I feel very grateful," Eaton told the Herald.
"Almost certainly, I would be deceased or in much worse shape had I not
had the opportunity to be in this program."
Hare warned that while the study, which used two different types of
bone marrow stem cells, produced exciting results, it's only the beginning. There
are still larger-scale studies to perform, including one involving 50 to 100
hospitals and many hundreds of patients before the FDA could consider approval.
That will take at least five years.
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