Coordinator: ICICOR

Area of Research: Cell Therapy

Services provided: 200 complete angiographic studies, 128 cardiac MRI studies, quantitative IVUS analysis of 90 patients, and stress echocardiography with dobutamine for 140 patients

Publications:

Experimental and clinical regenerative capability of human bone marrow cells after myocardial infarction. Circ Res 2004; 95: 742-748.

Intracoronary stem cell transplantation in acute myocardial infarction. Rev Esp Cardiol. 2004; 57: 201-8.

Impacto de la obstrucción microvascular persistente en el remodelado ventricular postinfarto tras el implante intracoronario de células mononucleadas de médula ósea: un estudio de cardiorresonancia con contraste. Rev Esp Cardiol 2008; 61: 602-10.

Comparison of neointimal hyperplasia with drug-eluting stents versus bare metal stents in patients undergoing intracoronary bone-marrow mononuclear cell transplantation following acute myocardial infarction. Am J Cardiol 2009; 103: 1651-6

Absence of accelerated atherosclerotic disease progression after intracoronary infusion of bone marrow derived mononuclear cells in patients with acute myocardial infarction--angiographic and intravascular ultrasound-results from the TErapia Celular Aplicada al Miocardio Pilot study. Am Heart J. 2010;159:1154.-8.