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Cellular replacement therapy for arrhythmia treatment: Early clinical experience

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Clinical and experimental studies have demonstrated the proarrhythmic potential of skeletal myoblast transplantation for repair of infarcted myocardium. The evidence on proarrhythmia following bone marrow-derived stem cells, and particular msenchymal stem cells, transplantation is inconclusive. There are experimental and preliminary clinical data supporting the possibility that mesenchymal stem cell transplantation might exert an anti-arrhythmic action by intervening with myocardial scar remodeling. However, clinical experience is limited.

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Katritsis, D. Cellular replacement therapy for arrhythmia treatment: Early clinical experience. J Interv Card Electrophysiol 22, 99–105 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10840-008-9244-z

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