New therapy for heart failure: The world's first patient with a “heart patch” reports. As of: March 24, 2024, 8:30 a.m By: Heidi Niemann CommentsPressSplit Weighing 20 grams and four millimeters thick: This is what the heart plaster developed at Göttingen University Medicine looks like.
It is currently in the clinical phase and is being tested on patients. The tissue is made from so-called induced pluripotent stem cells, which were obtained from umbilical cord blood.