Cell therapy in patients with left ventricular dysfunction due to myocardial infarction

• Authors: PANOVSKÝ Roman; MELUZÍN Jaroslav; JANOUŠEK Stanislav; MAYER Jiří; KAMÍNEK Milan; GROCH Ladislav; PRÁŠEK Jiří; STANÍČEK Jaroslav; DUŠEK Ladislav; HLINOMAZ Ota; KALA Petr; KLABUSAY Martin; KOŘÍSTEK Zdeněk; NAVRÁTIL Milan
• Year of publication: 2008
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Echocardiography - A Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound and Allied Techniques
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Medicine
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00696.x
• Field: Cardiovascular diseases incl. cardiosurgery
• Keywords: stem cells; coronary artery disease; left ventricular dysfunction
• Description: In our study, the statistically important effect of transplantation of mononuclear bone marrow cells on myocardial function was not found. Only an insignificant trend towards the improvement of global LV EF fraction was found at 3-month follow-up.

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