Now there is a good news for post myocardial patients. As new report reveals the significant increase in the contraction of the left ventricle of Heart in post Myocardial patients through stem cell therapy. The report is been published in the August issue of Heart.

This experiment was conducted by Dr. Hyo-Soo Kim and his colleagues from Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea involving 40 MI (myocardial infarction) patients who were undergone through successful coronary revascularization and stem cell therapy. Then they were treated with granulocyte colony stimulating factor for three days to mobilize stems cells, which were then collected by apheresis and then infused into the infarct-related coronary artery.

Then after six months the results between the stem cell infused group with the controlled group were compared. The comparative report shows significantly higher improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) in the stem cell infused group and no improvement in the control group.

On doing multivariate analysis, on the stem cell group, a higher degree of baseline LV dyssynchrony with greater improvements in LV ventricular synchronous contraction were found. Moreover they showed a significant improvement in the exercise capacity.

Thus, the overall process concludes that after acute myocardial infarction, intracoronary infusion of autologous stem cells contributes to restoration of left ventricular (LV) synchronous contraction.

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