A Shot of Bone Marrow Can Help the Heart.

The article focuses on a clinical trial led by Andreas Zeiher, a cardiologist at the University of Frankfurt, that aims to determine the outcome of the bone marrow that was directly injected into the heart of a human who suffered cardiac arrest. Zeiher, along with his colleagues from Norway, has hoped that such injection of the bone marrow may trigger the formation of new blood cells, new heart muscle, and send signals to damaged muscle to repair all by itself. The trial specifically involved bone marrow infusion into the affected artery and placebo injection revealing different assessment results.