Growing Heart Tissue for Implantation Is Possible in Six Weeks Says Top Heart Surgeon

September 5, 2007

Cardiac patients could have their own or donated cells engineered into heart valve or muscle replacements and implanted within six weeks from donation. This could be possible in as little as three to five years say top heart surgeons in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences – published recently.

Professor Magdi Yacoub, the world’s leading heart surgeon and Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Imperial College, based at the Heart Science Centre at Harefield Hospital has compiled the progress of his team and researchers worldwide for a special edition of the journal entitled ‘Bioengineering the heart’. (Medical News Today)