Periprocedural adverse events in cell therapy trials in myocardial infarction and cardiomyopathy: A systematic review

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-10

  Alvarez, Paulino A ^a   Schwarz, Ernst R ^b   Ramineni, Rajesh ^c   Myatt, Phil ^c   Barbin, Clay ^c   Boissonnet, Carlos ^d   Phan, Anita ^b   Maggioni, Aldo ^e   Barbagelata, Alejandro ^c  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS JOSÉ DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

^b CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^d CEMIC   (Argentina)

^e ANMCO RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Cardiomyopathy; Cell therapy; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; APHERESIS; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CELL MOTILITY; CELL THERAPY; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; INTRACORONARY TRANSPLANTATION; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MYOBLAST; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TELEMETRY; TRANSENDOCARDIAL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSEPICARDIAL TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 84872345441     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-012-0508-3     Document Type: Review

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