Congestive Heart Failure

New blood treatment could help

Published in Blood Weekly, February 6th, 2003

Draw a vial of blood from someone with advanced heart failure. Zap the blood with heat and other stresses, then inject it back in hopes the altered blood cells will trick the patient's immune system into fighting the heart-destroying disease.

Dr. James Young was highly skeptical that the pilot experiment would work, but desperate patients were lining up. So he tried it, and to his surprise the monthly treatment kept a significant number out of the hospital and even seemed to delay death.

Now Young, heart failure chief at the Cleveland Clinic, is about to study 2000 more patients to prove if the therapy really works. It's a dramatically different...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2003-02-06)

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