Nigeria, Jan. 30 -- In a groundbreaking clinical trial, researchers have successfully used patches of muscle grown from stem cells to repair a failing heart in a 46-year-old woman.

The woman, who had suffered a heart attack in 2016 and later developed heart failure, underwent an operation to implant 10 patches of 400 million cells on the surface of her heart.

The trial, which took place in 2021, was published Wednesday in Nature, a health publishing journal.

Following the procedure, they observed that her condition remained stable for three months, allowing her to receive a heart transplant.

The scientists who examined her old heart found that the implanted muscle patches had remained in place and formed blood vessels.

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