Japanese researchers announces iPS cell-based for heart operation

Professor Yoshiki Sawa from Osaka University

Professor Yoshiki Sawa from Osaka University

Tokyo … News Time

A team of Japanese scientists have announced a heart operation using iPS cells. According to the research team, this is the first time in the world. These mother cells are created from reprogrammed human cells to form different types of tissues in the human body. A team from Osaka University, led by Professor Yoshiki Sawa, has developed sheets of human heart cells obtained from iPS cells. The team has developed a cure for patients with serious heart disease, in which these sheets are placed on the heart. The operation was carried out this month. The patient’s illness was very serious, which was not possible with medication alone. The team did not specify the gender or age of the patient. Researchers say the operation has been successful, and the patient was transferred to the general ward on Monday morning. The surgery was part of a trial of new methods of treatment on humans. The team will review for one year the safe and effective treatment. Over the next three years, 9 other patients will have such operations.

Professor Yoshiki Sawa has expressed hope that this treatment will potentially be of benefit to more and more patients. He wished that this approach should be finally adopted for patients unable to be treated by medication so that artificial heart or heart transplants could be avoided.

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