Heart Bypass

Gene Therapy May Help Heart Bypass Last Longer

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, October 18th, 1999

New techniques that use gene therapy to make heart bypasses work better are showing promise in some of the most difficult patients, researchers said.

They said they had found ways to make veins - natural and artificial - last longer when they are stitched into patients to bypass clogged arteries.

Dr. Victor Dzau, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts, said the method could mean bypasses will last longer for many people who get them - good news because many bypasses clog up after a few years.

"It is absolutely safe," Dzau told a seminar for science reporters sponsored by Harvard.

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