Most treatment for heart failure can only slow it down or ease your symptoms.
Heart valve stem cell treatment.
A new treatment using stem cells which have the potential to grow into a variety of heart cell types could potentially repair and regenerate damaged heart tissue.
Stem cell therapy is currently the most promising avenue toward cardiovascular regeneration.
Doctors are testing whether stem cells can repair or replace damaged.
That said i thought you might find this video very interesting.
When heart cells are lost they are gone forever.
Some come from the bone marrow a modest number of others from the heart itself.
Additionally they re not all the same.
Common causes of heart failure include cardiomyopathy hypertension heart valve problems and coronary artery disease.
There they may help heal damaged tissue.
In the past i have written several stories about stem cell use for heart valve.
With respect to the heart stem cells have the ability to not only home into the damaged areas but also to initiate a cascade of biological events.
Helping the body heal itself.
When the body is injured stem cells travel the scene of the accident.
It has disproved what was once conventional wisdom about the heart.
However improvement in heart function is still modest with latest stem cell therapies for broken hearts.
Can stem cells help treat heart failure.
There is no cure for heart failure.
In a study published last february in the lancet researchers treated 17 heart attack patients with an infusion of stem cells taken from their own hearts.