Transplanting Gene into Injured Hearts Creates Biological Pacemakers Cardiologists have developed a minimally invasive gene transplant procedure that changes unspecialized heart cells into biological pacemaker cells that keep the heart steadily beating. >> goal is to treat heart rhythm disorders who currently have surgically implanted pacemakers. In the US 300,000 patients receive pacemakers every year. >>We have been able, for the first time, to create a biological pacemaker using minimally invasive methods and to show that the biological pacemaker supports the demands of daily life, .... We also are the first to reprogram a heart cell in a living animal in order to effectively cure a disease. These lab findings could lead to clinical trials for humans who not only have heart rhythm disorders but who suffer side effects, such as infection of the leads that connect the device to the heart, from implanted mechanical pacemakers.
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:32:20 +0000
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