Cardiopoietic stem cell therapy in heart failure: the C-CURE (Cardiopoietic stem Cell therapy in heart failURE) multicenter randomized trial with lineage-specified biologics.

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Published in J Am Coll Cardiol on April 10, 2013

Authors

Jozef Bartunek1, Atta Behfar, Dariouch Dolatabadi, Marc Vanderheyden, Miodrag Ostojic, Jo Dens, Badih El Nakadi, Marko Banovic, Branko Beleslin, Mathias Vrolix, Victor Legrand, Christian Vrints, Jean Louis Vanoverschelde, Ruben Crespo-Diaz, Christian Homsy, Michal Tendera, Scott Waldman, William Wijns, Andre Terzic

Author Affiliations

1: Cardiovascular Center Aalst, OLV Hospital, Aalst, Belgium. jozef.bartunek@olvz-aalst.be

Associated clinical trials:

C-Cure Clinical Trial | NCT00810238

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