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Scheduled a Friday morning news conference to introduce the patient

U of L doctors perform world’s first cardiac stem cell infusion

Jewish Hospital officials announced Thursday that physicians from the University of Louisville performed the world’s first cardiac stem cell infusion procedure at the hospital last Friday.

The procedure is part of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved clinical trial, testing the use of adult cardiac stem cells to treat heart disease.

No information about the patient was provided Thursday. The hospital has scheduled a Friday morning news conference to introduce the patient and the doctors who performed the procedure.

Clinical study leader for the procedure is Dr. Roberto Bolli, Jewish Hospital Heart and Lung Institute Distinguished Chair in Cardiology and director of U of L’s Institute for Molecular Cardiology...more

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