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Results from a new clinical trial show that treating heart attack patients with an infusion of their own heart-derived cells helps damaged hearts re-grow healthy muscle. Patients who underwent the stem cell procedure demonstrated a significant reduction in the size of the scar left on the heart muscle by a heart attack. Patients also experienced a sizable increase in healthy heart muscle ...

Heart-attack scars -- once thought permanent -- heal after treatment with a patient#39;s own heart stem cells.

The presence of - troponin I - a biomarker protein in muscle tissue that indicates heart muscle damage, could indicate a person likely to suffer from heart attacks, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

It's long been an article of faith that human heart muscle, once damaged, cannot regenerate. But findings from two clinical trials, presented Monday at the American Heart Assn.'s Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Fla., suggest that isn't the case.

It's long been an article of faith that human heart muscle, once damaged, cannot regenerate. But findings from two clinical trials, presented Monday at the American Heart Assn.'s Scientific Sessions in Orlando, Fla., suggest that isn't the case.