Sentences with phrase «dead heart muscle»
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Because heart cells lose their ability to divide soon after we are born, when the cells die — in a heart attack, say — the dead tissue is replaced by scar tissue rather than new muscle.
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Some of the heart muscle courses with blood, but other areas are deserts of dead tissue without blood vessels.
«When heart muscle is damaged, the body is unable to repair the dead or injured cells,» explained Deepak Srivastava, MD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and a co-founder of the new company.
When heart muscle is damaged, the body is unable to repair the dead or injured cells.