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Podcast: Mayo Clinic Talks
Episode: Regenerative Medicine Edition Ep.1: Transforming Care Towards Curative Solutions
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Guest: Fredric B. Meyer, M.D.; Andre Terzic, M.D., Ph.D.
Host: Darryl S. Chutka, M.D. (@ChutkaMD)
Imagine a patient who has suffered a massive myocardial infarction leaving a significant amount of damaged and non-functioning ventricular myocardium. Treatment for this patient’s subsequent congestive failure does not involve diuretics and beta blockers but rather an injection of the patient’s modified stem cells into surrounding viable ventricular myocardium resulting in the regeneration of new, functioning myocardial cells restoring the card...