New Therapies may Help to Avoid Transplant in Some Heart Failure Patients
...n." Two novel strategies will soon be tested in clinical trials for LVAD patients in the U.S. One study will utilize the muscle bulking agent clenbuterol and the second will evaluate autologous (the patients own) stem cells injected at the time of LVAD implantation. ...Heart Patients Can Now Benefit From Asthma Drug
...shortage of organ donors, many patients have to survive on heart pumps, reported the online edition of New York Times. New studies have found that clenbuterol results in significant improvement in the cardiac function of patients with heart pumps awaiting transplants, it said. Bodybuilders sometimes turn...Mechanical 'artificial hearts' can remove need for heart transplant by returning heart to normal
... beyond its desirable size. The drugs used were lisinopril, carvedilol, spironolactone and losartan in the first stage of treatment and bisoprolol and clenbuterol in the second. The next step for the researchers is a larger multi-centre trial named the Harefield Recovery Protocol (HARP) study, which is envi...