Donor Stem Cells Just As Good For Heart Patients

Posted: Published on November 7th, 2012

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Featured Article Academic Journal Main Category: Stem Cell Research Also Included In: Heart Disease;Cardiovascular / Cardiology Article Date: 06 Nov 2012 - 3:00 PST

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The findings, from the POISEIDON trial, are being presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2012 in Los Angeles this week, and the researchers also report them in an online-first article published in JAMA on 6 November.

Lead author Joshua Hare, a professor of medicine and director of the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Florida, says in a statement:

"This cell therapy clearly had some clinical benefits and the mesenchymal stem cells from donors were just as safe as those from the recipient."

"Even in patients who had heart attacks several decades before treatment, both donor and recipient stem cells reduced the amount of scarring substantially, by one-third," he adds.

The study results also suggest using donor MSCs may speed up treatment.

When a person suffers a heart attack, there is damage to the heart muscle. This scarring (ischemic cardiomyopathy) is the most common cause of debilitating, and often fatal, congestive heart failure.

Evidence from previous research suggests MSCs may heal scarring from a previous heart attack and improve heart function.

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