Study suggests adult stem cells may help repair hearts damaged b...

Courtesy EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health  Tue, 12/01/2009 - 23:00

(Rush University Medical Center) Adult stem cells may help repair heart tissue damaged by heart attack according to the findings of a new study to be published in the Dec. 8 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Rush University Medical Center was the only Illinois site and one of 10 cardiac centers across the country that participated in the 53-patient, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase I trial.

Rush is now currently enrolling patients for the second phase of the study.

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