Stem Cell Cure'for Heart Attacks ; How Injection Could Save a Patient's Life

Daily MailNovember 08, 2006

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EMERGENCY heart attack patients will be injected with their own stem cells in a dramatic new treatment.

The procedure, being pioneered by British doctors, holds out hope of a 'cure' as the stem cells repair damaged heart muscles.

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Stem Cell Cure'for Heart Attacks ; How Injection Could Save a Patient's Life

The low-cost treatment, which involves removing stem cells from the patient's bone marrow, could be given within a few hours of a heart attack.

It is intended to stop patients suffering further attacks and developing heart failure, something existing treatments fail to do in m...

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