Stem Cells for treatment of damaged hearts
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Scientists have for the first time succeeded in extracting vital stem cells from sections of vein removed for heart bypass surgery. Stem Cell Researchers found that these stem cells can stimulate new blood vessels to grow, which could potentially help the heart patients in repairing the damaged heart muscle after a heart attack.
The research, by Paolo Madeddu, Professor of Experimental Cardiovascular Medicine and his team in the Bristol Heart Institute (BHI) at the University of Bristol, is published in the leading journal Circulation.
It has been found that around 20,000 people each year undergo heart bypass surgery across the globe. The procedure for bypass surgery involves taking a piece of vein from the person’s leg and grafting it onto a diseased coronary artery to divert blood around a blockage or narrowing. However, the surgeon normally takes out a longer section of vein than is needed for the bypass. The Bristol team of experts successfully isolated stem cells from leftover veins that patients had agreed to donate. Professor Madeddu and his team are now beginning to investigate whether the cells can help the heart to recover from a heart attack and they are extremely confident that they are going to get the positive results and if they are successful it will surely be an important discovery in the field of medical science as thousands of needy patients are looking for it.
This is the first time in the history of the medical science that anyone has been able to extract stem cells from sections of vein left over from heart bypass operations. This is one of the important breakthroughs in the field of stem cell research. According to Professor Madeddu, “These cells might make it possible for a person having a bypass to also receive a heart treatment using their body’s own stem cells.”
“We can also multiply these stem cells in the lab to make millions more stem cells, which could potentially be stored in a bank and used to treat thousands of patients and helps them to live a happy life.”
Professor Peter Weiss berg, Medical Director of the BHF, said: “Repairing a damaged heart is the holy grail for heart patients. The discovery that cells taken from patients’ own blood vessels may be able to stimulate new blood vessels to grow in damaged tissues is a very encouraging and important advance. It brings the possibility of ‘cell therapy’ for damaged hearts one step closer and, importantly, if the chemical messages produced by the cells can be identified, it is possible that drugs could be developed to achieve the same end.”
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