Sentences with phrase «ischemic heart damage»

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Earlier studies in STEMI patients showed that ischemic postconditioning improved ST - segment resolution — an important marker of arterial blockage on electrocardiogram — reduced damage to heart muscle, and in some patients limited the extent of reperfusion injury.

Dr. Srivastava has co-founded a biotechnology company to help find new cures for many human diseases and one of the developmental genes whose role he discovered, Thymosin β4, is currently in clinical trials for patients suffering ischemic damage to the heart.

We are now moving this discovery into Phase II clinical trials (FDA approved) in patients suffering ischemic damage to the heart.

The major outcome of ischemic damage is aggravation of the heart muscle function, known as cardiomyopathy.

In animals, these cells quickly repaired vascular damage, cutting the death rate after a heart attack in half and restoring the blood flow to ischemic limbs that might otherwise have to be amputated.

Okyanos cardiac cell therapy targets the restoration of blood flow to the heart and repairs damaged heart tissue caused by heart attack or ischemic and non-ischemic heart disease.

More interestingly, the effects on infarction size, survival rates and cardiac function can be observed even if the dietary intervention is induced after the ischemic event, by increasing the expression of angiogenic factors and increased vascularization of the damaged myocardium, proposing a novel non-pharmacological therapy for subjects with chronic heart failure (43).