Table 1.
Total animals used | Death after surgery | Improper injection of cellsa | Infarct size<10% or >30% of LV mass | Final group size | |
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Control | 10 | 1 | not applicable | 2 | 7 |
ESC-treated | 24 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 9 |
An improper injection of cells into the left ventricular lumen led to BL signal on the right thoracic abdominal region and an absence of hypointense MRI signal inside the myocardial wall.