“Unprecedented Recovery” – Gene Therapy Reverses Heart Failure in Breakthrough Study
https://scitechdaily.com/unprecedented-recovery-gene-therapy-reverses-heart-failure-in-breakthrough-study/
“Unprecedented Recovery” – Gene Therapy Reverses Heart Failure in Breakthrough Study
https://scitechdaily.com/unprecedented-recovery-gene-therapy-reverses-heart-failure-in-breakthrough-study/
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Heart disease is a leading cause of death in the USA:
A new gene therapy has been shown to reverse the effects of heart failure and restore heart function in a large animal model. The treatment increases the heart’s ability to pump blood and significantly improves survival rates. A paper describing the results calls it “an unprecedented recovery of cardiac function.”
Heart failure is currently irreversible. Without a heart transplant, most treatments aim only to reduce the heart’s workload and slow the progression of the disease. If this gene therapy produces similar outcomes in future clinical trials, it could offer a way to repair the hearts of one in four people expected to develop heart failure during their lifetime.
Let me know when it becomes available to everyone then we’ll have some Hope.
I talked for a few minutes today to someone who currently has an artificial heart in her chest.
Sounds promising. As recently diagnosed with bicuspid aortic valve I am really hoping for a gene therapy for this condition (it is sort-of genetic after all).