Meta-analyses of human cell-based cardiac regeneration therapies: Controversies in meta-analyses results on cardiac cell-based regenerative studies

Circulation Research

Volumn 118, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 1254-1263

  Gyöngyösi, Mariann ^a   Wojakowski, Wojciech ^b   Navarese, Eliano P ^c,d   Moye, Lemuel À ^e  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Systematic Investigation and Research on Interventions and Outcomes MEDICINE Research Network   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

Author keywords

heart failure; meta analysis; myocardial infarction; outcome measures; stem cells

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL REGENERATION; CELL THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL BASED CARDIAC REGENERATION THERAPY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; BIOLOGICAL THERAPY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRENDS;

CELL- AND TISSUE-BASED THERAPY; HUMANS; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGENERATION; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 84963804591     PISSN: 00097330     EISSN: 15244571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.115.307347     Document Type: Article

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