Houston we have liftoff...

Finally!!! Coming out of tel aviv and beer sheva in a joint cardiology/biomedical engineering project, is a cardiac revascularization patch that can be used on MI patients who are unsuitable or ineligible for CABG surgery. The patch is implanted on the omentum in the abdomen where is grows on a biological scaffold with the prompt of several growth factors. When vascularization takes place the patch is removed and reimplanted over top of ischemic heart tissue to encourage angiogenesis. It can even be used over top of scar tissue which causes strictures ordinarily and often leads straight down the road to heart failure. The patch has a ways to go yet with further helsinki approved clinical trials on schedule, but I'm so excited that I can hardly contain myself.