Abstract
Rationale: Transcatheter, intramyocardial injections of bone marrow-derived cell therapy produces reverse remodeling in large animal models of ischemic cardiomyopathy. Objective: We used cardiac MRI (CMR) in patients with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction related to remote myocardial infarction (MI) to test the hypothesis that bone marrow progenitor cell injection causes functional recovery of scarred myocardium and reverse remodeling. Methods and results: Eight patients (aged 57.2±13.3 years) received transendocardial, intramyocardial injection of autologous bone marrow progenitor cells (mononuclear or mesenchymal stem cells) in LV scar and border zone. All patients tolerated the procedure with no serious adverse events. CMR at 1 year demonstrated a decrease in end diastolic volume (208.7±20.4 versus 167.4±7.32 mL; P=0.03), a trend toward decreased end systolic volume (142.4±16.5 versus 107.6±7.4 mL; P=0.06), decreased infarct size (P
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 792-796 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Circulation Research |
Volume | 108 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 1 2011 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- bone marrow
- heart failure
- reverse remodeling
- stem cells
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physiology
- Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine