| Liposuction used to generate stem cells |
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| Wednesday, 07 February 2007 | |
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"It's a medical milestone," said Francisco Fernandez-Aviles, chief cardiologist at the hospital. "The patient is fine." The liposuction procedure was performed on the patient's stomach to remove fat, from which the surgeons extracted and purified the stem cells. The stem cells were then injected into the patient's heart, where doctors hope they will form additional blood vessels and heart muscle. This is the first known time when liposuction was used to extract fat for a secondary purpose, since normally the removal of the fat is the goal in itself. Using liposuctioned fat to harvest stem cells is potentially a huge improvement for stem cell therapy, since, unlike stem cells removed from bone marrow, these fat cells did not need to be cultivated for three weeks before use. |
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