Following successful tests on rats and rhesus monkeys, the researchers studied their approach on a 46-year-old woman with advanced heart failure. In 2021, after all possible treat ...

A small incision is made in the chest and the 3.5in (9cm) by 1.5in patch is stitched on to the surface of the heart. "It's tricky because the tissues are floppy, and you have to take care to make ...

That means patients, although they are sick, have to be stable when implanted. Before trying the heart patch in this patient, the researchers and their clinical colleagues along with their ethics ...

Fifteen patients have received the patches so far. The trial continues with promising results. In a scientific breakthrough that will help advanced heart failure patients, a lab-grown patch for ...

An experimental new treatment may have been discovered that could - believe it or not - mend a broken heart. Back in 2021, a 46-year-old woman with severe heart failure was given a lab-made patch ...