New York, December 22 (IANS). An international research team found in its research that in some people with artificial hearts, the heart muscles can function even after failure.
The team, co-led by a physician scientist from the Sarwar Heart Center at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson in the US, found that a subgroup of patients with the artificial heart were able to reactivate heart muscle. This research could open the door to new treatments and perhaps someday even cure heart failure.
There is no cure for heart failure, although medicines can slow its progression. The only treatment for heart failure other than a transplant is an artificial heart, which can help the heart pump blood.
“Skeletal muscles have a significant ability to regenerate after injury,” said Hesham Sadek, MD, chief of the division of cardiology in the department of medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson. “If you’re playing football and you tear a muscle, So you need to give her rest and she will be fine.”
When the heart muscle is injured, it does not recover.
In a research paper published in the journal Circulation, Sadek said that there is nothing we can do to repair heart muscle damage.
Sadek led a collaboration between international experts to investigate how heart muscle can regenerate.
The project began with tissue from artificial heart patients provided by colleagues at the University of Utah Health and School of Medicine, led by Stavros Drakos, a pioneer in left ventricular assist device-mediated recovery.
The investigators found that patients with the artificial heart regenerated muscle cells at a rate six times higher than those with healthy hearts.
“This is the strongest evidence yet that human heart muscle cells can actually regenerate,” Sadek said, “which is really exciting, because it confirms that the human heart has a built-in ability to regenerate.” The capability is there.”
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