American Heart Journal
Volume 153, Issue 2 , Pages 212.e1-212.e7, February 2007

Design and rationale for the Myocardial Stem Cell Administration After Acute Myocardial Infarction (MYSTAR) Study: A multicenter, prospective, randomized, single-blind trial comparing early and late intracoronary or combined (percutaneous intramyocardial and intracoronary) administration of nonselected autologous bone marrow cells to patients after acute myocardial infarction

  • Noémi Nyolczas, MD, FESC

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
    • Department of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, National Health Service Center, Budapest, Hungary
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  • Mariann Gyöngyösi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Mariann Gyöngyösi, Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Währinger Gürtel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria.
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  • Gilbert Beran, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Markus Dettke, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Transfusion Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Senta Graf, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Heinz Sochor, MD, FESC

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Günther Christ, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • István Édes, MD, PhD, FESC

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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  • László Balogh, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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  • Korff T. Krause, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiology, AK St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Kai Jaquet, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiology, AK St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Karl-Heinz Kuck, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiology, AK St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany
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  • Imre Benedek, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of Targu Mures, Targu Mures, Romania
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  • Theodora Hintea, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, University of Targu Mures, Targu Mures, Romania
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  • Róbert Kiss, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, National Health Service Center, Budapest, Hungary
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  • István Préda, MD, PhD, FESC

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, National Health Service Center, Budapest, Hungary
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  • Vladimir Kotevski, MD, FESC

      Affiliations

    • Uni-Clinic-Center, University “St. Cyril and Methodius,” Skopje, Macedonia
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  • Hristo Pejkov, MD

      Affiliations

    • Uni-Clinic-Center, University “St. Cyril and Methodius,” Skopje, Macedonia
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  • Darius Dudek, MD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cardiology, Krakow, Poland
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  • Grzegorz Heba, MD

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Cardiology, Krakow, Poland
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  • Christer Sylven, MD

      Affiliations

    • Karolinska University Hospital at Huddinge, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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  • Silvia Charwat, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Ronaldo Jacob, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Gerald Maurer, MD, FACC

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Irene Lang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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  • Dietmar Glogar, MD, FESC

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Received 24 May 2006; accepted 9 October 2006. published online 14 December 2006.

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 The study is supported by an educational grant from the OMAA (Austrian-Hungarian Action Foundation-60—u7-) and the Austrian Society of Cardiology to Dr Nyolczas.

PII: S0002-8703(06)00948-3

doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2006.10.027

American Heart Journal
Volume 153, Issue 2 , Pages 212.e1-212.e7, February 2007

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