Researchers Discover Biological Therapy for Heart Disease [Part 2]

Researchers Discover Biological Therapy for Heart Disease - Marban estimated five to six billion dollars are spent each year in the world for electronic pacemakers for the millions of patients. But an artificial pacemaker has serious weaknesses. The device planted it can cause life-threatening infections and every five to seven years the patient had to undergo surgery to replace the battery.

In addition, Marban noted that externally programmable devices do not work well in all patients, while others are too severe to use.

In two years, Marban said the researchers plan to test gene therapy in patients with the most severe heart to prove the biological therapy is safe and effective in humans. "Basically, we are looking for is the patient who already has an electronic pacemaker, who experience severe infections and electronic pacemakers need to be removed. During the patient off of the electronic pacemaker, heart they need to be maintained in several ways, and we hope we will be able to create a biological pacemaker to keep the heart rate while waiting for the next treatment, " he said again.

Perhaps this new biologic therapies available a few years for patients who need a heart pacemaker. This article about the creation of natural pacemaker is published in the journal Nature Biotechnology. [YA]