Drug Lessens Heart Attack Muscle Damage
The first studies carried out in humans that aim to lessen the muscle damage of a heart attack has yielded very favorable results. Very exciting! I think it is important for people to remember that ones heart suffers damage at 2 different points after a cardiac event- one when the ischemia from a blockage occurs and one when normal blood flow is resumed after an intervention.
The drug studied, KAI-9803, may prove to help in restoring muscle after damage the second time around post procedure, PCI.
“The goal of the treatment is to flood the heart damaged by the heart attack with the drug immediately before blood flow is restored and then again, immediately afterwards,” says Roe. “We believe that bathing the area with this novel compound may block the damaging cascade of events that are triggered specifically by delta protein kinase C when blood is restored to the heart muscle,” he says.
Promising indeed. Keep your eyes peeled for more on this in the near future. This type of drug is very needed and welcomed.
via Science Daily
Tags: angioplasty, cardiac damage, cardiac muscle, damage, heart tissue, heart-attack, medicaion, PCIRelated Stories
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