Talk:Cardiomyopathy

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[edit] Treatment for non-ischemic cardiomyopathy

This new section does not belong on a general Cardiomyopathy page. Either move to the appropriate type (dilated?) or delete. Much of it looks over-specific (vanity?) anyway. I suggest severe editing! Maybe when I have a spare moment... Hugh2414 08:15, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

I agree that the tone of that new section is inappropriate, but there does seem to be some meat there. I did some searching on PubMed and found three optimistic articles from 2005:
  • PMID 16333238 ("Cardiac stem cell therapy for myocardial re-generation. A clinical perspective.")
  • PMID 15762847 ("Myocardial regeneration with bone-marrow-derived stem cells.")
  • PMID 16061805 ("Cardiac repair with intramyocardial injection of allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells after myocardial infarction.")

For comparison, here's a pessimistic one from 2003:

Unfortunately, I only have access to the abstracts, not the journal articles. --Arcadian 13:51, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

  • But those PubMed articles are about ischemic heart disease. No support for the contention that stem-cell therapy is useful in non-ischemic cardiomyopathy. I still think, in any case, that there should be nothing on treatment on the general Cardiomyopathy page. Appropriate treatment depends on the type of cardiomyopathy and belongs on the specific pages. I'll delete it tomorrow (or soon, anyway) unless someone objects. And try to work stem cells into the treatment sections of some of the more specific pages. Hugh2414 22:12, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
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