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Can Vanderbilt doctors really regrow damaged heart muscle?

April 26, 2017damaged doctors heart muscle REGROW Vanderbilt

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Can Vanderbilt doctors really regrow damaged heart muscle?

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Vanderbilt is the first medical center to give a new drug called GGF2 to patients recovering from heart failure. In preclinical trials, the drug has helped to regrow damaged heart muscle, and now patients who have suffered heart failure are getting the drug in a Phase 1 trial at Vanderbilt. Physicians hope the trial will show whether the drug is effective as early results have seemed to suggest. Learn more in an article here.