Laser-Supported CD133+ Cell Therapy in Patients with Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: Initial Results from a Prospective Phase I Multicenter Trial

• Alexander Assmann ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Assmann, Michael Heke

  Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany, Research Group for Experimental Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Michael Heke ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Assmann, Michael Heke

  Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany, Research Group for Experimental Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Patric Kröpil,

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Lena Ptok,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Dieter Hafner,

  Affiliation Institute of Pharmacology and Clinical Pharmacology, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Christian Ohmann,

  Affiliation Coordination Centre for Clinical Trials, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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• Andreas Martens,

  Affiliation Clinic for Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Antje Karluß,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Luebeck, Germany

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• Maximilian Y. Emmert,

  Affiliation Clinic for Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Ingo Kutschka,

  Affiliation Clinic for Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

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• Hans-Hinrich Sievers,

  Affiliation Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Luebeck, Germany

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• Hans-Michael Klein

  * E-mail: kleinhm@med.uni-duesseldorf.de

  Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heinrich Heine University, Medical Faculty, Duesseldorf, Germany

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