From: http://www.italy-news.net- 4/5/02

If this miraculous procedure proves to be successful, it will mean that NO 
ONE will be deprived of Heart Repair, and that the procedure will be far less 
TRAUMATIC, and far less more chance of SUCCESS. 

Furthermore, this Stem Cell procedure can be used on other major body 
Organs!!!!  
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PADUA HOSPITAL FIRST IN STEM CELL TRANSPLANT IN OPEN 
HEART SURGERY

A team of doctors from the Cardiac Surgery Unit of a Padua hospital made 
history yesterday when it performed a transplant of stem cells into a 
patient’s heart. 

The team had first taken some 600 million stem cells from a 70-year-old 
patient’s hip bone a week ago, then selected and processed the cells and 
subsequently transplanted them into his heart. 

It took 30 separate injections during the open-heart surgery procedure that 
lasted four hours. 

It was the first time that stem cells, which regenerate tissue and repair 
damage, had been transplanted directly into a patient’s heart. 

Health Minister Girolamo Sirchia, declared his support for using stem cells 
to repair tissue in lieu of heart transplants which, he said speaking at a 
separate conference in Rome, "will never be sufficient for all the waiting 
lists."