Review Article

Cell Therapy in Ischemic Heart Disease: Interventions That Modulate Cardiac Regeneration

Table 1

Clinical trials using cell therapy protocols for ischemic heart disease.

Year, acronymDiseaseCell sourceRoute of deliveryPrimary outcomeReference

2004AMI ()MSC, 18 days after AMI (9 × 109)Intracoronary6 months after therapy
↑ LVEF ()
Chen et al. [8]

2004, BOOSTAMI ()BMMC, 5 days after AMIIntracoronary6 months after therapy
↑ LVEF ()
Wollert et al. [17]

2005AMI ()CD133+ cells, 12 days after AMI
(15 × 106)
Intracoronary4 months after therapy
↑ LVEF ()
Bartunek et al. [18]

2005, MYSTARAMI ()BMSC, early group, 3–6 weeks, and late group, 3-4 months after AMI
(2 × 108 intramyocardial; 1,3 × 109 intracoronary)
Intramyocardial/intracoronary3 months after therapy
↑ LVEF (, early group)
↓ infarct size (, early group)
Gyöngyösi et al. [19]

2006AMI ()BMSC, 1 day after AMI
(2 × 108)
Intracoronary 4 months after therapy
LVEF ()
↓ infarct size ()
Janssens et al. [20]

2008, MAGICLeft ventricular dysfunction/AMIAutologous skeletal myoblasts (4–8 × 108)Intramyocardial6 months after therapy
LVEF ()
LVEDV ()
LVESV ()
Menasché et al. [12]

2012 (meta-analysis)AMI or ischemic heart disease
(50 studies; )
BMDCIntramyocardial or
intracoronary
↑ LVEF ()
↓ infarct size ()
↓ LVESV ()
↓ LVEDV ()
Jeevanantham et al. [21]

2012, POSEIDONIschemic cardiomyopathy ()MSC
(2 × 107, 1 × 108, 2 × 108)
Transendocardial13 months after therapy
↓ infarct size ()
LVEF ()
Hare et al. [22]

2013, C-CURECHF/recent AMI
()
Cardiopoietic stem cells
(6–12 × 108)
Intramyocardial6 months after therapy
↑ LVEF ()
↓ LVESV ()
Bartunek et al. [23]

2014, PRECISEIschemic cardiomyopathy/CHF
()
ADSC (42 × 106)Transendocardial6 months after therapy
infarct size ()
LVEF ()
Perin et al. [9]

2014Ischemic heart failure
()
BMMC (8.4 × 108)Intramyocardial1 year after therapy
LVEF ()
↓ infarct size ()
Pätilä et al. [24]

AMI, acute myocardial infarction; BMMC, bone marrow mononuclear cells; MSC, mesenchymal stem cells; ADSC, adipose derived stem cells; LVEF, left ventricular ejection fraction; LVEDV, left ventricular end-diastolic volume; LVESV, left ventricular end-systolic volume; BMSC, bone marrow derived stem cells; CHF, chronic heart failure.