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Stem cell therapy in patients with heart failure.

Bojan Vrtovec1, Gregor Poglajen, François Haddad

  • 1Ljubljana University Medical Center, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Methodist Debakey Cardiovascular Journal
|March 23, 2013
PubMed
Summary

Stem cell therapies show promise for treating heart failure by reducing detrimental cardiac remodelling. This approach offers a potential new avenue for patients with end-stage heart failure unresponsive to conventional treatments.

Keywords:
cellsdilated cardiomyopathyheart failureischemic heart disease

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