Research team delivers a new first in heartfailure treatment using cell therapy
. Patients in the trial were on full guideline-recommended drug therapy for heart failure, suggesting that the effect of the cell therapy was synergistic with and additive to state-of-the-art heart failure medications., a progressive disease that leads to a weakening of the heart muscle and a loss of its pumping function.
DREAM-HF was a phase 3 trial performed at 51 sites in 565 patients with chronic heart failure, who were also on standard-of-care heart failure treatment. The study, which had a mean follow-up of 30 months, was designed to examine the effects of MPC comprising immunoselected, culture-expanded mesenchymal precursor cells , on the number of hospitalizations and major adverse cardiovascular events in heart failure.
Investigators in the landmark clinical trial Dream-HF have shown that cardiac stem cell therapy may provide additional benefits to drug therapy by treating, for the first time, a major contributor to heart failure: inflammation. Credit: Texas Heart Institute Similarly to what was seen with these major adverse cardiovascular events, improvement in ejection fraction was even more pronounced in patients with higher inflammation levels. MPC therapy did not further reduce recurrent heart failure events requiring hospitalization over and above the effects of traditional drugs which reduce circulating volume overload caused by the maladaptive effects of neurohormonal activation.
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