Scientists, their studies, techniques followed and their findings are all really advancing with every day, result of which is seen recently from the findings of a U. S. research, during which the team of U. S. scientists has succeeded in re-growing a heart muscle to replace the tissue that dies because of the heart attack.

Yes, this latest advancement in the field of regenerative medicine can do wonders for the medical science but only it could save the life of a heart attack patient, if the doctors get enough time to open the blocked artery before all the damage is done.

According to the medicine science, when a patient suffers from heart attack, his heart muscle starts losing blood supply partially, due to which, the affected tissue dies and the heart stops pumping blood to the parts of the body.

But with the findings of the above research, researchers say that if a patient is reached well in time to an advanced medical center and the doctors get some time to open the blocked artery (but prior any damage due to attack), life of the patient can be saved.

Discussing about the above findings, Director of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles, Mr. Eduardo Marbán revealed a more ambitious plan and said that “The idea was to take patients who had suffered a heart attack, in which part of the heart muscle turns to scar, and to challenge the dogma that scar, once formed, is permanent, and that healthy tissue, once lost, is lost forever”.

In context to the same, his team biopsied small pieces of heart tissue (of heart attack victims) and grew some stem cells in the laboratory, which they then injected back into the affected part of the heart.