Following injury, many organs are capable of rapid regeneration of necrotic tissue to regain normal function. In contrast, ...

Then we expanded that to patients with chronic myocardial infarction and then to patients ... had nonviable myocardium - in other words scar tissue - but often those scar patterns were unlike ...

A new review published in Genes & Diseases highlights macrophage-targeted therapy as a promising frontier in cardiac regeneration and myocardial repair.

New Sanford Burnham Prebys scientist Ahmed Mahmoud, PhD, planned to complete his doctoral degree and enter the pharmaceutical ...

Recent research has focused on various methods to convert cardiac fibroblasts (the cells that form scar tissue after heart ... reduce fibrosis in chronic myocardial infarction.

Patients with acute heart attacks (ST elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI ... that the body initiates to repair the damaged heart tissue can also cause further loss of viable heart muscle ...

The ECG findings of a posterior wall myocardial infarction are different than the ... A posterior wall MI occurs when posterior myocardial tissue (now termed inferobasilar), usually supplied ...

After a heart attack, most adults struggle to regenerate healthy heart tissue, leading to scar-tissue buildup and, often, heart failure. A new Northwestern Medicine study in experimental animals ...