State of the Art on the Evidence Base in Cardiac Regenerative Therapy: Overview of 41 Systematic Reviews

Figure 2

Forest plot for improvement in cardiac function (change in left ventricular ejection fraction). AMI = acute myocardial infarction; AMSTAR = A Measurement Tool to Assess Systematic Reviews; BMSC = bone marrow-derived stem cell; CHD = congestive heart failure; G-CSF = granulocyte-colony stimulating factor; IHD = ischemic heart disease; LLCI = lower limit of the 95% confidence interval; PE = point estimate; RCT = randomized clinical trial; SC = stem cell; ULCI = upper limit of the 95% confidence interval.