New Treatment Option for Heart Failure Patients




The Scope Radio show

Summary: Until recently, six million patients suffering from heart failure only had a couple options for treatment, and both are fairly invasive. Now, there's a new procedure that's under clinical trial at the University of Utah that offers an ultra-minimally invasive way to intervene before a heart transplant or artificial heart is needed. Director of Clinical Regenerative Medicine Dr. Amit Patel talks about a procedure where stem cells are injected into a patient's heart to help it heal itself, how it works and other applications for the treatment.