American heart journal
Design and rationale of CATO, a Phase IIA, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of single or repeated intravenous administration of umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells in ischemic cardiomyopathy.
Roberto Bolli, Xian-Liang Tang, Joshua M Hare, Raul D Mitrani, Emerson C Perin, João Ac Lima, Barry E Hurwitz, Dinesh Kalra, Gurnoor Singh, Russell G Saltzman, Lina V Caceres, Adriana Nettina, Yee-Shuan Lee, Ketty Bacallao, Edward Grant
Published: 202510.1016/j.ahj.2025.107328
Abstract
RATIONALE: To date, almost all studies of cell therapy in chronic heart failure (HF) have delivered cells transendocardially or intracoronarily and all have used a single cell dose, which limits therapeutic efficacy because transplanted cells disappe…
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