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For the first time, engineered heart muscle (EHM) from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) will be used to treat patients with heart failure. After regulatory approval, recruitment of the first patient for the first-in-class, first-in-patient BioVAT-HF-DZHK20 early...

Diastolic heart failure can be reliably detected with a newly developed magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology, shows a study by the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) at the Göttingen site. Until now, this was only possible with a heart catheterisation study,...

Circulatory disorders in the heart can have two causes: The large blood vessels can be narrowed, which can be treated with a stent, for example, or the small, finely branched vessels are no longer permeable. The latter is called impaired coronary microcirculation. A study by the...

What role does the so-called cytoskeleton play in heart failure? An international group of researchers led by Prof. Lucie Carrier from the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) is now focusing on this area of heart disease, which has received little attention to date....

After an infection, the risk of a heart attack in cardiovascular risk patients increases up to twenty times. Scientists from the German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) have found that the immune cells are involved in this in a mouse model. However, specific molecules...