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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:1812-1813
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

New technology

INVITED COMMENTARY

Shafie Fazel, MD, Denis Angoulvant, MD, Richard D. Weisel, MD

Division of Cardiac Surgery, Toronto General Hospital, EN 14-215, 200 Elizabeth St, Toronto, Ontario M5G-2C4, Canada

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Pompilio and colleagues report on the mobilization, harvesting, and purification of AC133+ cells followed by myocardial implantation at the time of coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Cell therapy offers the promise to regenerate the heart after a myocardial infarction. Skeletal myoblasts were the first cell type to be transplanted at the time of CABG into regions that could not be revascularized to assess safety and possible efficacy [1]. This phase I trial was well controlled.

Recent studies demonstrated that bone marrow cells [2, 3] contributed to . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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