A research team at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Tucson’s Sarver Heart Center found that a subset of artificial heart patients can regenerate heart muscle, which opens the possibilities of new ways to treat and perhaps someday cure heart failure.The results of the research which was co-led by a physician-scientist were published in the journal Circulation.
Comparing the repair of skeletal muscles to heart muscles, Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD, director of the Sarver Heart Center and chief of the Division of Cardiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine — Tucson’s Department of Medicine said that when a heart muscle doesn’t grow back if it gets injured, “We have nothing to reverse heart muscle loss.”