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SUBMITTER: Bervar M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5689759 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stem cells translational medicine 20170311 6
We sought to evaluate the physiological background and the effects of CD34<sup>+</sup> cell transplantation on diastolic parameters in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy patients (DCM). We enrolled 38 DCM patients with NYHA class III and LVEF < 40% who underwent transendocardial CD34<sup>+</sup> cell transplantation. Peripheral blood CD34<sup>+</sup> cells were mobilized by G-CSF, collected via apheresis, and injected transendocardially in the areas of myocardial hibernation. Patients were follo ...[more]