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Blood work offers hope Heart treatment therapy
By Michelle Mark The Calgary Sun Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Treating heart attack victims with their own blood has
University of Calgary medical experts looking for volunteers
who want to live longer, healthier lives. Unveiling the
North American Phase 3 of clinical trials called ACCLAIM
yesterday, U of C experts are drawing blood from patients
with chronic heart failure, running it through a machine
which heats and stresses it, and then injects it back into
the patient through a shot in the buttocks.
The process is known as immune modulation therapy.
"This procedure targets chronic inflammation by kick-
starting the immune system's own anti-inflammatory
response," said Dr. Debra Isaac, U of C Faculty of
Medicine's associate clinical professor of cardiology.
"We cardiologists have come to recently understand that
inflammation plays a pivotal role in the development and
progression of heart failure."
Through the process in which about two teaspoons of blood
are exposed to heat, oxidation and UV light, the white blood
cells begin to die off.
Those dying cells then trigger an anti-inflammatory reaction
in the patient, causing his or her own body to boost its own
healing process.
"I'm hoping this will give us another tool in our battle
against heart disease," Isaac said.
Researchers need 30 heart patients to participate in the
study. They will be required to undergo a 20-minute
procedure once a month for two years.
For more information, call research co-ordinator Jane Grant
at 220-8282.
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By Michelle Mark The Calgary Sun Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Treating heart attack victims with their own blood has
University of Calgary medical experts looking for volunteers
who want to live longer, healthier lives. Unveiling the
North American Phase 3 of clinical trials called ACCLAIM
yesterday, U of C experts are drawing blood from patients
with chronic heart failure, running it through a machine
which heats and stresses it, and then injects it back into
the patient through a shot in the buttocks.
The process is known as immune modulation therapy.
"This procedure targets chronic inflammation by kick-
starting the immune system's own anti-inflammatory
response," said Dr. Debra Isaac, U of C Faculty of
Medicine's associate clinical professor of cardiology.
"We cardiologists have come to recently understand that
inflammation plays a pivotal role in the development and
progression of heart failure."
Through the process in which about two teaspoons of blood
are exposed to heat, oxidation and UV light, the white blood
cells begin to die off.
Those dying cells then trigger an anti-inflammatory reaction
in the patient, causing his or her own body to boost its own
healing process.
"I'm hoping this will give us another tool in our battle
against heart disease," Isaac said.
Researchers need 30 heart patients to participate in the
study. They will be required to undergo a 20-minute
procedure once a month for two years.
For more information, call research co-ordinator Jane Grant
at 220-8282.
More at: http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/CalgarySun/News/2004-
/06/30/519895.html
Jai Maharaj http://www.mantra.com/jai Om Shanti
Hindu Holocaust Museum http://www.mantra.com/holocaust
Hindu life, principles, spirituality and philosophy
http://www.hindu.org (http://www.hindu.org/) http://www.hindunet.org (http://www.hindunet.org/)
The truth about Islam and Muslims
http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate
The terrorist mission of Jesus stated in the Christian
bible:
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I
came not so send peace, but a sword. "For I am come to
set a man at variance against his father, and the
daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law
against her mother in law. "And a man's foes shall be
they of his own household.
- Matthew 10:34-36.
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for the educational purposes of research and open
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