Off-the-Shelf Artificial Cardiac Patch Repairs Heart Attack Damage in Rats, Pigs

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed an off-the-shelf artificial cardiac patch that can deliver cardiac cell-derived healing factors directly to the site of heart attack injury. In a rat model of heart attack, the freezable, cell-free patch improved recovery. The researchers also found similar effects in a pilot study involving a pig model of heart attack.