TY - JOUR
T1 - Percutaneous transplantation of skeletal myoblast in the treatment of post-infarction injury
AU - Siminiak, Tomasz
AU - Meliga, Emanuele
AU - Jerzykowska, Olga
AU - Serruys, Patrick W.
PY - 2006/12
Y1 - 2006/12
N2 - Cell therapy may be a potentially attractive approach to restore myocardial contractile performance after an infarction injury. Multipotent stem cells are currently being studied as a possible cell source for myocardial repair within the first few days after the infarction onset in non-revascularizable areas of the left ventricle having viable myocardium. In the presence of fibrotic post-infarction scar with no detectable myocardial viability, direct myocyte precursors, i.e. myoblasts, are being considered as a potential source of new muscle fibres. We review the current clinical experience with transplantation of the autologous skeletal myoblasts in patients with post-infarction heart failure, focusing on percutaneous cell transplantations performed as a sole procedure.
AB - Cell therapy may be a potentially attractive approach to restore myocardial contractile performance after an infarction injury. Multipotent stem cells are currently being studied as a possible cell source for myocardial repair within the first few days after the infarction onset in non-revascularizable areas of the left ventricle having viable myocardium. In the presence of fibrotic post-infarction scar with no detectable myocardial viability, direct myocyte precursors, i.e. myoblasts, are being considered as a potential source of new muscle fibres. We review the current clinical experience with transplantation of the autologous skeletal myoblasts in patients with post-infarction heart failure, focusing on percutaneous cell transplantations performed as a sole procedure.
KW - Catheter systems
KW - Cell transplantation
KW - Heart failure
KW - Myoblasts
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U2 - 10.1093/eurheartj/sul064
DO - 10.1093/eurheartj/sul064
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:33845990259
SN - 1520-765X
VL - 8
SP - H57-H64
JO - European Heart Journal, Supplement
JF - European Heart Journal, Supplement
IS - H
ER -