So, how can you mend a broken heart? Stem cell therapy just might be the answer. The results of some recent clinical trials have proven that not only can stem cell therapy repair a broken heart, but it can also result in improved quality of life for the patient. For more than 10 years, scientists have been convinced that stem cells are the future when it comes to repairing organs, since they can become any cell in the body, reversing damage otherwise thought to be permanent. Heart disease is the cause of the majority of deaths in the developed world and presently, in these matters of the heart, today’s medicines can only keep a patient from getting worse. Drugs can be prescribed to help keep the blood vessels open and lower blood pressure to manage the condition, but really, the only option at present is a heart transplant. Amazingly, this could now change, since a drug has indeed been invented, using stem cell therapy, that really can mend a broken heart.
Regenerating damaged organs with stem cell therapy
A team of leading scientists and physicians have found a completely new method of regenerating damaged organs with stem cell therapy. Their innovative discovery of very rare and potent tissue-specific stem cells has enabled them to meticulously engineer them towards unique disease-specific cellular regenerative medicines. Whereas most stem cell companies follow a philosophy of “one cell fits all” (as in, one cell that can treat all diseases), they have now discovered disease-specific and tissue-specific cells which enable them to treat different parts of the body with unique and precise treatments. Obviously, the process of getting a new drug to market is a long one, but this new heart fixer is already in the very late stages of clinical trials. The clinical trial approval process has many government rules and regulations to protect patients. If approved in clinical trials, a treatment then needs the pharmaceutical and biotech industries to develop it further to ready it for the worldwide market. The biotech industry is continuously finding new ways to heal people. Improving human health has always been their principal objective. Their successful methods of healing have been used for centuries and include such treatments as using leeches to draw blood or improve blood flow and maggots to remove rotten flesh. The more recent advances in biotechnology, genetics and stem cell biology, are paving the way for diagnosing and treating disease in the future. The world’s leading scientists are testing and trying new ways to work with stem cells, and this discovery of tissue-specific and disease-specific cells to treat different parts of the body is quite exceptional and advanced. It opens up the door to so many other treatments. These particular scientists are already working on stem cell treatments for tendons, and this treatment is also in the late stages of clinical trials. Eleven patients, with very severely damaged hearts and whose only hope of survival was to receive a heart transplant, have been treated with this new drug. Each patient had severe heart failure and had a life expectancy of less than one year, with a 70% likelihood of one-year mortality. Two years on and since treatment with this new heart-fixing drug, all patients are not only still alive but their heart function has actually significantly improved. Their scars have diminished and their quality of life has improved and continues to do so! So, mending a broken heart could be closer than we think. The Bee Gees would be baffled, but proud! Featured photo credit: www.pixabay.com via pixabay.com
