Cellular Therapies for Chronic Ischemic Heart Failure.

This article reviews clinical trials investigating stem cell therapy for chronic ischemic heart failure. To generate this review article, PubMed was searched using keywords "stem cell therapy heart failure" with the article type "Clinical Trial" selected on 10/04/2016. The raw search yielded 156 articles. 53 articles were selected for inclusion in the review between the original literature search and manual research/cross-referencing. Additional reviews and original articles were also manually researched and cross-referenced. Cellular based therapies utilizing peripheral blood progenitor cells, bone marrow cells, mesenchymal stem cells, cells of cardiac origin, and embryonic stem cells have yielded mixed results, but some studies have shown modest efficacy. Skeletal myoblasts raised concerns about safety due to arrhythmias. Optimizing cell type and delivery method will be of critical importance in enhancing efficacy of therapy within various subsets of chronic ischemic heart failure patients. Although much more work needs to be done to optimize treatment strategies, developing stem cell therapies for chronic ischemic heart failure could be of critical importance to lessening the impactful burden that heart failure has on patients and society. PMID: 29355725 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Hellenic Journal of Cardiology - Category: Cardiology Tags: Hellenic J Cardiol Source Type: research