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What Kind Of Stem Cell Therapy Is Suggestible For Cardiac Arrest?

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Posted on Mon, 21 Apr 2014
Question: After massive cardiac arrest while in emergency as a result of one or two silent heart attacks over the years. He is in late fifties, a strong country man who are healthy foods and did not smoke but inherited fathers weakness. Put on heart lung machine.. no brain damage. After one week or so now on heart balloon pump for a week perhaps. He has 20 eject fraction… probably well below 50 eject before the SCA although he did not show it with his walking and lifting heavy things. Leading up to SCU he had congestive breathing together with flu and flem for three days… Ventolin of little affect. The hospital made his breathing easier but that might have triggered SCA… somehow? He is being eased off the heart balloon slowly and will be given other meds. There is a chance that he might not survive after the balloon pump is removed. .. but if he still maintains a 20 ejection what kind of meds? If there a chance of higher ejection fraction? What of some kind of stem cell therapy treatment later on? Thank you.
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Answered by Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar (6 hours later)
Brief Answer: Ejection fraction improves over time Detailed Answer: Hi Ejection fraction will slightly improve over time to 30 to 35%. If there are symptoms of failure drugs like Furosemide, digoxin, Nicorandil and ACE inhibitors are common after survival from massive heart attack. All of the these are proven to improve survival rate and reduce morbidity and mortality. After losing muscle (heart muscle dies during heart attack) little part of this would be recovered depending on a number of factors. Remodelling of the heart muscle takes place if a good cardiac rehab program is planned. I have no good information about stem cell therapy and its uses post massive cardiac arrest. You should speak to a Specialist Cardiologist.
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What Kind Of Stem Cell Therapy Is Suggestible For Cardiac Arrest?

Brief Answer: Ejection fraction improves over time Detailed Answer: Hi Ejection fraction will slightly improve over time to 30 to 35%. If there are symptoms of failure drugs like Furosemide, digoxin, Nicorandil and ACE inhibitors are common after survival from massive heart attack. All of the these are proven to improve survival rate and reduce morbidity and mortality. After losing muscle (heart muscle dies during heart attack) little part of this would be recovered depending on a number of factors. Remodelling of the heart muscle takes place if a good cardiac rehab program is planned. I have no good information about stem cell therapy and its uses post massive cardiac arrest. You should speak to a Specialist Cardiologist.