Nursing Implications for Gene Therapy to Treat Peripheral Arterial Disease

Current trends in gene therapy affect nursing practice. As treatments with gene therapy progress, nurses are required to have advanced knowledge and techniques to provide nursing care for patients who undergo gene therapy. Gene therapy using Sendai virus (SeV) vectors for peripheral artery disease (PAD) has been progressing in Japan. The key challenging of nursing for this new gene therapy are examined by reflection analysis from the first-in-human phase I and II clinical trials.
Source: Journal of Vascular Nursing - Category: Nursing Authors: Source Type: research