New Therapy For Cardiomyopathy

Myoblast cell sheets derived from the patient's skeletal muscle in the thigh and grafted onto the heart surface have shown encouraging results including improved heart function and exercise tolerance and could be a viable option to treat heart failure, according to a team of Japanese scientists.

Autologous muscle cell-sheet graft: potential therapy for cardiomyopathy
- Cardiomyopathy (disease of heart muscle) can lead to heart failure
- Current treatments are no effective in the longterm
- New autologoues skeletal muscle cell sheeet transplant highly promising

Novel Therapy For Cardiomyopathy : Patient's Own Thigh Muscle Cells

Transplant of autologous skeletal myoblast cell-sheet derived from patients' thigh muscle could be a potential treatment for cardiomyopathy. Read More

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