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SUBMITTER: Roncalli J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3386167 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Roncalli Jérôme J Mouquet Frédéric F Piot Christophe C Trochu Jean-Noel JN Le Corvoisier Philippe P Neuder Yannick Y Le Tourneau Thierry T Agostini Denis D Gaxotte Virginia V Sportouch Catherine C Galinier Michel M Crochet Dominique D Teiger Emmanuel E Richard Marie-Jeanne MJ Polge Anne-Sophie AS Beregi Jean-Paul JP Manrique Alain A Carrie Didier D Susen Sophie S Klein Bernard B Parini Angelo A Lamirault Guillaume G Croisille Pierre P Rouard Hélène H Bourin Philippe P Nguyen Jean-Michel JM Delasalle Béatrice B Vanzetto Gérald G Van Belle Eric E Lemarchand Patricia P
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<h4>Aims</h4>Intracoronary administration of autologous bone marrow cells (BMCs) leads to a modest improvement in cardiac function, but the effect on myocardial viability is unknown. The aim of this randomized multicentre study was to evaluate the effect of BMC therapy on myocardial viability in patients with decreased left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and to identify predictive factors for improvement of myocardial viability.<h4>Methods and result ...[more]