Date: 5/27/2008
TUMSPR News: In an innovative method stem cells were used to help an 11-year-old Iranian’s ailing heart. He was suffering from severe heart failure due to advanced cardiomyopathy.
In a report by the Public Relations of Tehran University of Medical Sciences’ (TUMS) Children’s Hospital stem cells were used in the 11-year old patient with cardiomyopathy for the first time in the country.
Dr. Aliakbar Zeinalou, a faculty member of the Pediatrics department of TUMS School of Medicine said that the efforts of ten researchers had lead to the operation upon proliferation of stem cells. In the 2-hour operation, the stem cells had been transferred to the coronary arteries of the patient through tiny catheters.
The blood flow had been slowd down in the coronary arteries to help better absorb the stem cells by ligating cardiac vein (Coronary sinus).
Mr. Zeinalou added that the results of the operation and other innovations by Iranian researchers on stem cell grafts would be disclosed in a separate symposium at the 10th National Cardiovascular Congress at Razi Conference Hall in Tehran, Iran on 11 – 12, 2008.
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