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What are Stem Cells?
Stem cells are primordial, unspecialized cells that have the remarkable potential to renew themselves as long as the person or animal is still alive. Under suitable conditions, they can become another type of more specialized, terminally differentiated cells such as brain, heart muscle, liver, nerve, red blood cells, etc. Stem cells serve as a sort of repair system by replenishing cells that are lost because of senescence or injuries.
Who is suitable for?
Not every heart patient is suitable for treatment with Stem Cell Therapy. The decision to treat will depend on the treating cardiologist or heart surgeon's careful reviewing from the patient's medical records and general medical conditions. The diagnostic results will present whether the patient is suitable for the treatment. Some patients do not qualify for treatment, either because the doctors think it will not improve their heart condition or because they judge that the procedure might be too dangerous.
Majority of end-stage ischemic heart patients are not amenable for conventional treatments of heart disease. The patients who have exhausted treatment options such as coronary artery bypass surgery or balloon may also be candidates for stem cell therapy which may approve the patients' quality of life and heart function.
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