In a novel study researchers show that stem cells taken from the fat of waistline could be used to treat heart attacks. Researchers injected stem cells obtained from waistline fat tissue into the heart of coronary patients. These cells decreased levels of damage, improved the flow of blood and pumping ability of organs.
A cosmetic procedure known as liposuction commonly used to reduce waistline of the people. This method was used to confiscate more than two hundred centimeters of fat from the bellies of the patients. The researchers secluded and taken out twenty millions adults stem cells from each sample. These regenerative cells have potential to become more than one kind of tissue.
The whole process took ten minutes to infuse stem cells into the heart of patients. After six months participants treated with the procedure showed more than three percent improvement in heart perfusion, it is the ability of heart to receive oxygenated blood.
They also experienced more than five percent increased amount of blood pumped out by left ventricle of the heart chamber in comparison to the participants who took placebo infusion. The amount of damaged heart muscle in treated patients was halved by fifteen percent from thirty-one percent. But it was remained same in non treated group.
The study also found that the stem cells did not interfere with blood flow and were not associated with any potentially dangerous changes in rhythm of the heart. The study recommends that these cells can be safely acquired and infused inside the hearts of patients following an acute heart attack, explained study author Dr Eric Duckers, from Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.