title: The use of stem cell therapy for cardiovascular disease.
abstract: As I've shown today, stem cell therapy is not just theoretical--it is now being applied clinically for cardiac disease. There will be data forthcoming on intracoronary injection in acute MI and our own study of transendocardial injection in heart failure. We still have a lot to learn about the biology, but everything that we are learning just makes this field more exciting.
authors.affiliation: Stem Cell Center, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. eperin@crescentb.net
authors.forename: Emerson C
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: Perin
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D033581:Stem Cell Transplantation; D016896:Treatment Outcome