11/15/2011 @ 11:15AM
Hype Aside, Hope for Stem Cell Therapy May Be Emerging From Hibernation
Forbes.com
Two small studies of cardiac stem cells for the treatment of heart failure have shown promise, but ABC News, CBS News and other media outlets are throwing around words like “medical breakthrough” and “heart failure cure.” ABC News correspondent Richard Besser was so enthusiastic that anchor Diane Sawyer commented that she had never seen him “so excited.” The first author of one of the studies, Roberto Bolli, said the work could represent “the biggest advance in cardiology in my lifetime.”
The reality may be somewhat more prosaic. In the first paper, published in the Lancet, Roberto Bolli and colleagues, including senior author Pierro Anversa, report on a phase 1 study still in progress in which 16 patients with post-infarction left ventricular (LV) dysfunction received cardiac stem cells (CSCs) harvested during bypass surgery and subsequently expanded. Seven patients served as controls.
Full story: http://www.forbes.com/sites/larryhusten/2011/11/15/hype-aside-hope-for-stem-cell-therapy-may-be-emerging-from-hibernation/
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