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Heart
Adult Stem Cell Clinical Findings Presented at European Conference
Reuters
September 1, 2009
Reporting on the latest advancements in adult stem cell therapies, TCA Cellular presents the findings of its own research at the annual congress of the European Society of Cardiology.
Adult Stem Cell Company Reports on Heart Therapy
PRNewsWire.com
August 31, 2009
The adult stem cell company Cardio3 BioSciences presents an update on its heart failure therapy at the annual conference of the European Society of Cardiology.
University of Florida to Test CD34+ Stem Cells for Heart Disease
Daily India
October 4, 2007
University of Florida researchers are planning to test a therapy in which stem cells are injected into the hearts of people with severe coronary artery disease and daily chest pain, to see if it could help restore blood flow by prompting new blood vessels to grow.
Severe Heart Attack Treated with Stem Cells
Deutsche Welle
September 18, 2007
Cardiologists at Düsseldorf University Hospital said they have been the first in the world to use stem cell therapy to save a patient who suffered from a severe heart attack. Düsseldorf's Rheinische Post newspaper reported the success story of stem cell therapy conducted on a 64-year-old patient.
Woman Raises Funds for Stem Cell Treatment
Gannett News Sevice
September 9, 2007
Henderson has managed to avoid the heart transplant by taking CoQ10, a supplement that has helped her heart beat faster, but she wants to do something more. She wants to have adult stem cell therapy in Thailand, in which her own immature stem cells would be used to try to repair the damaged portion of her heart. The only thing holding her back is the $50,000 cost.
Heart Valves and Muscle Tissue Grown from Own Stem Cells Soon to be Reality
AFP
September 2, 2007
Surgeons will soon be able to literally mend a broken heart using live tissue grown from a patient's very own stem cells, top cardiologists said Monday.
The whole procedure -- harvesting cells from bone marrow, growing tissue, and surgically implanting the heart muscle or valve -- could take as little as six weeks and could become routine within three-to-five years, they reported.
Adult Stem Cells Repair the Heart
The Christian Post
August 22, 2007
In October, surgeons removed 500ccs of bone marrow from Carron’s left hip. The cells were cultivated, and four hours later, 30 million stem cells were injected into the right side of Carron’s heart.vvFour months later, she had another CT scan to see how her heart was functioning. The news could not have been more—well, heart-stopping.
Adult Stem Cell Double Dose for Hawaiian Doctor
Trans World News
August 15, 2007
Doctor George Smith, MD, from Hawaii, derived such benefit from his first adult stem cell treatment in Bangkok eighteen months ago that he returned recently for another procedure. The first trip gave Dr. Smith, age 80, a stronger heart muscle. The second he believes will help increase blood flow throughout his body.
Man with Failing Heart Get's Stem Cell Therapy
Green Valley News
August 8, 2007
Buck took a gamble after hearing that stem-cell therapy might revive his failing heart and allow him to return to the life he loves in Green Valley, where he lives in The Springs with his two dogs. He heard about the procedure from a friend, who knew of a patient from Green Valley who had successfully undergone it. The idea gave him hope and inspiration and, in consultation with his doctors, he immediately began extensive research on the Internet.
Best Choice for Heart Failure Patients - Adult Stem Cell Transplants
PR Web
August 7, 2007
Heart disease, according to the figures from The National Center for Health Statistics 2005 data, affects some 25.6 million Americans. It was then, and remains, the biggest killer of U.S. citizens, with over 650,000 dying every year. Until now as patients deteriorated and medication or surgery on their heart failed to help they were faced with only two options, a heart transplant or death.
Self-Repairing Hearts - Scientists Achieve World First
The Sunday Telegraph
August 5, 2007
AUSTRALIA'S top heart specialists believe they have found a treatment to stop heart disease in its tracks, potentially saving millions of lives worldwide. Experts from the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute and Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital will today unveil the groundbreaking discovery, which involves using adult stem cells from patients to repair their own hearts.
New York Woman Feels Good Enough to Dance After Stem Cell Treatment
TransWorldNews
July 31, 2007
An infection from a root canal treatment nearly destroyed the life of Ann Bonarelli, a New York native. From a healthy, active life she got to the point where she could not breathe as the infection settled in her heart. Her valve stopped working and her heart began to fail. Today, four months following adult stem cell treatment, Ann feels as well as she did before she got ill.
Woman's Heart Rebuilt with Stem Cells
CitizenLink
July 30, 2007
Alabama event planner Carron was hanging Japanese lanterns for a wedding last summer when she suffered her fourth heart attack. A week later, the doctor told the 58-year-old mother of two she was a walking time bomb: The right side of her heart was functioning at less than 50 percent. She doesn't even need her $85,000 defibrillator anymore after stem cell treatment.
How to Mend a Broken Heart: Stem Cells
New Scientist
July 29, 2007
Stem cells may help repair damaged tissue after a heart attack, according to a team of American researchers. The study, which was done on mice, shows that stem cells play a limited, but significant role in repairing damaged hearts. However, it remains unclear whether it is heart cells that are doing the repair, or cells from elsewhere in the body.
Dilated Cardiomyopathy Treated Using New Adult Stem Cell Treatment
eMediaWire
July 25, 2007
Dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition previously thought to be incurable, may now be vulnerable. A bangkok based company cites the case of Michigan native Jason Ludwick as an example. Jason was suffering from dilated cardiomyopathy, a condition responsible for 10,000 deaths each year in the United States. Jason went all the way to Thailand to receive adult stem cell treatment and is now living a normal life.
Stem Cells Tested in UK Heart Patients
The Guardian
June 22, 2007
British scientists are to try out a new way to repair damage caused by heart attacks. By injecting patients' damaged hearts with stem cells from their own bone marrow scientists hope to regenerate tissue. Heart disease is the UK's biggest killer - around 230,000 people suffer a heart attack each year. Almost a third of them die.
Treatment of Heart Disease Revolutionized by Stem Cells
The Hindu
June 22, 2007
The concept of "growing" heart muscle and vascular tissue and manipulating the myocardial cellular environment by using stem cell therapy has revolutionised the treatment of heart diseases, a leading cardiologist said today. Dr. Naresh Kumar said adult stem cell therapy was safe, feasible, accessible and cost effective.
Heart Trial Holds Promise to Break New Ground
keyetv.com
May 9, 2007
A clinical stem cell trial involving Austin patients has some doctors saying it may change medicine forever. The trial involves heart attack patients using adult stem cells. The stem cells are from the donated bone marrow of healthy adults. The trial is in its first phase, with just 10 sites around the nation. Doctors are already saying the results hold the promise of doing what has never been done before, rebuilding heart muscle of heart attack patients.
Adult Stem Cells Provide Miraculous Treatment for Man with "Nine Lives"
Yahoo! News
April 20, 2007
Instead of a hospice and death, an American man with a raft of medical problems was given a new lease on life by the technology of adult stem cell therapy. The cells were derived from Dave's own blood. Only five weeks follwing the treatment, Dave was having measurable improvements. At the ten week mark he went to Washington to testify on stem cells. At his six-month checkup, his home doctor told him his ejection fraction had more than doubled. This doctor was quite a skeptic prior to these results.
Cousins Travel to Bangkok to Regain Heart Function
PR Web
April 9, 2007
Two cousins suffering with heart failure from Long Island, New York, travel to Bangkok for adult stem cell therapy to get back their normal, more active lives. The cousin’s hope that they can lead normal lives following the treatment. Hundreds of patients are now more energetic and pain-free. Ann and Fay hope to be among those who have had successful results with adult stem cell therapy.
Thai Hospital Helps American Man's Heart with Adult Stem Cell Procedure
Suburban Journals
March 30, 2007
This specific stem cell procedure has only been performed on 44 Americans. A number which now includes Bill. It involves harvesting blood from either the patient’s bone marrow or main blood stream. The blood is processed and the stem cells are extracted. Then either through a main artery in the leg that leads to the heart, or through general surgery, the stem cells are re-injected into the patient. Now after the treatment, Bill says that each passing month makes him feel healthier and stronger.
Heart Organ Performance Dramatically Improves with Adult Stem Cells
ABC News
March 26, 2007
Scientists have announced that they have been able to use stem cells to treat patients with heart failure, some of the first evidence that the much-hyped therapy could have significant clinical benefits. Joseph M. Hare, who led the study, sees an even larger goal: ending cardiovascular disease, as we know it. With the advent of these treatments, he said he envisioned heart disease -- now the No. 1 killer of Americans -- becoming more like infectious disease, which has been more easily treatable and much less fatal since antibiotics were introduced.
Adult Stem Cells for Heart Regeneration
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
March 19, 2007
Using a patient’s own cells to treat heart disease, Steve became the first patient to enter a novel stem cell clinical trial at the University of Wisconsin. About 10 patients will be treated at the University of Wisconsin Hospital, but a total of approximately 150 people will be treated around the country as part of the trial. For Steve’s trial, one-third will be injected with a placebo saline solution, another third will get 10 million stem cells, and the last third will be injected with about 50 million stem cells.
Man's Own Fat Stem Cells Transplanted into Heart
Reuters
February7, 2007
Doctors have implanted adult stem cells extracted from a man's fat tissue through liposuction into his heart, in an experimental treatment for angina and heart disease. Cardiologists at the Spanish hospital are developing the new treatment with doctors at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston. They said the man, whose name has not been made public and who had the treatment on January 30, is the first in a study which will involve 36 patients.
Naples Man Fights Against Heart Failure with Aid of Stem Cells
Naples News
February 1, 2007
In early May, the Bangkok Heart Hospital administered the treatment for Mel. After 36 injections and an entire month, his treatment was complete. The right side of his heart received six injections while the weaker left side of his heart received the other 30. In regards to his ejection fraction, a measurment of his heart's efficiency, he said that, "since I've been back, seven weeks ago it was 34 (from his initial score of 19), so it's gone up 90 percent."
Pumping Life Back Into The Heart With Adult Stem Cells
Fairview Observer
November 19, 2006
His doctors were astounded. Today, Bobby is a pioneer in a research study that — if the results continue to look promising — might transform heart treatment forever. In an experimental procedure called myoblast cell transplantation, Bobby received injections in his heart of 100 million stem cells grown from his own leg muscle. Many months and perhaps years stand in the way of having a stem cell procedure like of this nature enter mainstream medicine, but this much is a fact - Bobby's scarred and dying heart muscle is regenerating.
Womb Fluid Cells Used To Create Heart Valves
Associated Press
November 15, 2006
Offering a revolutionary advance that may be used to repair defective hearts in the future, scientists have grown human heart valves for the first time using stem cells from the fluid that cushions babies in the womb. Using cells the fetus sheds in amniotic fluid avoids controversy because it doesn't involve destroying embryos to get stem cells.
Heart Transplants Could Become History With The Use of Adult Stem Cells
The New Zealand Herald
November 14, 2006
According to a study on how to repair the effects of cardiac failure, stem cells taken from a patient’s own body could help restore the health of a malfunctioning heart. To replace damaged heart tissue, scientists have shown that it is possible to grow cardiac stem cells in the laboratory prior to transplanting them back into a patient. Offering an alternative treatment to a complete heart-transplant operation, the findings demonstrate the prospect of rebuilding cardiac muscle that had been destroyed during a heart attack.
Man Gains Strength and Confidence After Adult Stem Cell Heart Procedure
The Register
November 5, 2006
The 70 year old Dick received treatment with a new procedure in which adult stem cells extracted from his own blood were injected directly into his ailing heart to strengthen it. Gaining strength and in good spirits, Dick returned home on October 10th. He is hoping the operation will give him more energy and extend his life by rejuvenating his heart. "Though stem cell procedures still are not commonly done, people like me will help change it," Dick said. "I think it will cut way down on heart transplants."
Adult Stem Cell Treatment for Heart to be Routine in 3-5 Years
INDOlink
October 26, 2006
Routine stem cell therapies for certain types of heart disease will become a reality in 3-5 years according to Dr. Amit of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made Amit the only individual in the entire nation to gain its endorsement to undertake clinical trials for treating heart patients by directly injecting adult stem cells into the heart.
Stem Cell Treatment for Heart Reaches Milestone
Bloomberg News
October 24, 2006
Monday, researchers at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics conference in Washington said that among 18 patients who had bone marrow injected into their hearts to heal tissue, after one year, there were no deaths or heart attacks. The decision to begin a second trial, this time involving 150 patients, is supported by the primary findings.
Adult Stem Cells to Be Used in Heart Study
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
October 10, 2006
A national study that will examine whether our own blood stem cells can repair the heart will be available to individuals with severe angina that have limited treatment options. Sophisticated cardiac navigation systems will assist the doctors with the process of injecting stem cells into the patient. Following the procedure, patients will receive MRI scans and other assessments in addition to being monitored with a symptom and activity diary and exercise testing.
Take Heart: Promising Results with Stem Cell Therapy
The Ledger
September 17, 2006
Doctors want additional treatments to offer their patients, especially with an aging population and the increasing number of heart-attack survivors with damaged hearts. "I'm very excited about it," said Dr. Kevin, a Lakeland cardiologist and director of Watson Clinic Center for Research. "The future of this whole area may revolutionize our care of people with weak hearts. It's one of the most cutting edge approaches that's happening."
Man with Congestive Heart Failure Seeks Adult Stem Cell Treatment
Florida Today
August 21, 2006
This adult stem cell procedure involves injecting millions of these early-developmental cells directly into his heart. It has the potential to construct new blood vessels and heart muscle by contributing to new blood vessel development and helping to generate new tissue in the heart.
Adult Stem Cell Therapy Holds Great Promise for Man with Ailing Heart
Main Street News
August 9, 2006
Richard has congestive heart failure. This disease affects his heart's ability to pump sufficient blood to suit the body's daily needs. Ultimately, the disease will progress to the point where the heart becomes weaker and weaker to a point of failure. That is why on August 16th, Richard a Braselton resident, and his wife Terre will fly to Thailand to receive stem cell therapy in Bangkok.
Robotic Surgery Techniques Deliver Stem Cells - Cardiac Cell Therapy Research
University of Minnesota
July 31, 2006
Researchers effectively used robotic surgery to deliver stem cell treatment to damaged heart tissue in pigs at the University of Minnesota. In six of seven cases, the transplant process was successful. The cells took hold and enhanced functioning of the heart as following MRI studies showed.
A 70-Year-Old Poster Boy for Science - Man Saved by the Stem Cell
Grand Forks Herald
July 31, 2006
Mike Swendseid had an angioplasty, triple-bypass heart surgery. Inside him were four wires, two stents, a pacemaker and a defibrillator. He had apparently run out of options in battling heart disease. However, science delivered a response. At the Minneapolis Heart Institute which is part of Abbott Northwestern Hospital, the 70-year-old Swendseid became a recipient of experimental stem cell treatment in January.
Stem Cell Research to Combat Australia's #1 Killer
The Advertiser
July 11, 2006
Cardiovascular disease is Australia's number one killer, but those afflicted by the disease may soon have optimism due to research conducted in Adelaide using stem cells.Cells harvested from their own bone marrow will give patients a new treatment options utilizing purified stem cell technology.
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