[Cellular transplantation: a new alternative treatment in ischemic cardiomyopathy]

Tunis Med. 2002 Dec;80(12):733-8.
[Article in French]

Abstract

The cellular transplantation in the myocardium or cellular cardiomyoplasty has been tested extensively among the animal. It showed very encouraging results concerning improval of the contractile function in cardiac failure. This work is going to review the set of the experimentations in the animal and the beginnings of the therapeutic tests. It is going to expose the different technical modes that have been proposed, the conditions of their realization, the problems to which they are exposed as well as the perspectives of future.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Forecasting
  • Hemodynamics
  • Humans
  • Myocardial Ischemia / physiopathology
  • Myocardial Ischemia / therapy*
  • Myocytes, Cardiac / transplantation*
  • Treatment Outcome