New possible way discovered to help heart attack recovery
When people suffer from a heart attack, they are never fully-recovered as the heart is physically damaged for the entire life. Until now, doctors have no way of fixing the damage.
There are many scientifically affirmed ways to repair a heart attack but they have proven to be slow, tedious, and even incomplete. Nonetheless, science is looking for newer and better ideas to improve lives by the minute and that is how skin cells come into play.
According to Engadget, researchers from Japan have theorized a new model involving the mix between skin cell growth and heart repair. What the idea is, that if skin cells are converted into heart cells since they are made of similar material, then they can be used to grow heart cells back into the heart and reinstate order as well as function.
The Guardian mentions that it will work by using the skin cells of another person rather than the patient themselves. The donor has to be one with somewhat similar genetic material compared to the patient and with that they will be able to perform the surgery.
However, this surgery is far from done considering that it is still in extremely early testing phase. Right now, this idea is being tested on laboratory rats and they have yet to show prominent results. So far the highest repair was only 16% of the damage covered and the rat had to be kept under various medication for it to stay in proper health.
Alas, there are still high hopes for this treatment considering that if it is able to improve itself, it could bring a lot of easiness into the lives of heart attack patients. This is because they are left somewhat weak after an attack but this treatment, if done properly, could bring them back up to speed with no damage left.
