by JANET ST. JAMES
WFAA
Posted on July 3, 2012 at 5:15 PM
Updated yesterday at 5:24 PM
DALLAS Six weeks ago, 64-year-old Larry Rayes could only walk a few steps without resting.
"I could only walk about 20 yards and I got very lightheaded, very dizzy," Rayes said.
Rayes suffers from congestive heart failure, a condition caused by a heart so weak it can't effectively pump blood through his body.
He needs a heart transplant, but until he gets one, Rayes is part of an experiment to see if his heart can heal itself.
In May, at the same time doctors implanted a heart pump in Rayes' chest, his weakened heart also received a series of 20 stem cell injections.
"We're using these stem cells to regenerate the muscle of the heart, so that their hearts can beat more effectively," explained cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Todd Dewey.
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