Advanced strategies for end-stage heart failure: combining regenerative approaches with LVAD, a new horizon?

Advanced strategies for end-stage heart failure: combining regenerative approaches with LVAD, a new horizon?

Despite the improved treatment of cardiovascular diseases the population with end-stage heart failure is progressively growing. The scarcity of the gold standard therapy, heart transplantation, demands novel therapeutic approaches. For patients awaiting transplantation ventricular assist devices hav...

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Main Authors: Cheyenne eTseng, Faiz eRamjankhan, Nicolaas eJonge, Steven A.J. Chamuleau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Surgery
Subjects:
Heart Failure
cell therapy
Ventricular assist device
Mechanical circulatory support
Regenerative therapy
cardiac recovery
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fsurg.2015.00010/full

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