Healing the Heart with Bone-Marrow Cells
May 22, 2009 | Source: Technology Review
Injecting the hearts of angina sufferers with cells extracted from their own bone marrow can reverse the condition and relieve its symptoms, a new study led by Douwe Atsma, a cardiologist at Leiden University Medical Center, suggests.
Patient's left ventricle before treatment (on the left) and after (on the right); top: after exercise; bottom: at rest. Increased blood flow is indicated by more orange. (Leiden University Medical Center)
