Damage caused by a heart attack has been healed using stem cells gathered from the patient's own heart, according to doctors in the US.
The trial, at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, was designed to test the safety of using stem cells taken from a heart attack patient's own heart.    The amount of scar tissue was halved in the small safety trial reported in the Lancet medical journal.     The authors said there was also an "unprecedented" increase in new heart muscle.

The British Heart Foundation said it was "early days", but could "be great news for heart attack patients who face the debilitating symptoms of heart failure.".

Source: BBC

            The Lancet

            Ceders-Sinai Heart Institute