Uso de células-tronco no tratamento de pacientes com miocardiopatia dilatada de diferentes etiologias, associada à ressincronização cardíaca artificial

In spite of the development of pharmacological strategies, technology and more sophisticated surgical alternatives, incidences of death from cardiopathies remains high throughout the world, in particular in relation to dilated heart disease. Many of these patients benefit from recent strategies of early myocardial perfusion which significantly reduces mortality rates; even so past-infarction heart failure is common. Recent studies have shown that the infusion of autologous stem cells is a possible treatment to reverse ventricular dysfunction. However, frequently there is an associated electric...