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Gerry's Story
Gerry’s grandfather and father both died of a heart attack in their sixties. Gerry had a heart attack at the same age, and despite getting more advanced treatment, his heart began to fail.
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Elroy's Story
For Elroy, a special moment is reading his granddaughter her favorite story, or getting out on the court to teach his grandsons how to shoot a jump shot. A few years ago, Elroy had a heart attack, then another one. His heart was failing.
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Jennifer’s Story
Following a car accident in February 2013, Jennifer had experienced pain in her neck, and left side pain through her shoulder and numbness and tingling in her fingertips.
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Clinical Trials
Heart Failure Optimization Study (HF-Opt)
This study is designed as a multi-center prospective observational study of newly diagnosed Heart Failure (HF) patients to test the hypothesis that additional Ejection Fraction (EF) recovery occurs...
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Efficacy and Safety of Allogeneic Mesenchymal Precursor Cells (Rexlemestrocel-L) for the Treatment of Heart Failure. (DREAM HF-1)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of a single transendocardial delivery in the cardiac catheterization laboratory of human bone marrow-derived allogeneic MPCs (...
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Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (Intermacs)
Over the last two decades, MCSDs have been developed to augment or supplant failing myocardial performance. This therapy has been used successfully as a bridge to heart transplantation, a bridge to recovery, and as permanent implantation or "destination therapy" for intractable heart failure. Although heart transplantation offers life-saving therapy for selected patients, its use is limited by a supply of donor organs that currently meets less than one-tenth the need. As a consequence, the number of MCSD implantations has increased in recent years.
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