Scientists are making more progress in the area of stem cell research; this time, they have found a way to use a patient’s own stem cells to help repair heart attack damages. Doctors are now able to harvest stem cells during a patient’s own bypass surgery using a minimally invasive technique to infuse into the patient’s in order to reverse damages that occurred during cardiac arrest. Out of the seventeen subjects that the doctors used to experiment this procedure, fourteen of them saw improved cardiac function within the next few months, and their heart scars had shrunk considerably.
This new finding by doctors came as very good news to me. In the US alone, approximately six million people have heart failure. My own grandfather died a couple of months ago from a heart attack. This condition is very common and very severe, and it is encouraging to hear that doctors are making progress in this field so they can help those who are suffering from heart failure.
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