INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STEM CELLS, cilt.13, sa.3, ss.364-376, 2020 (SCI-Expanded)
Background and Objectives: The HUG-HEART Trial (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02323477) was a controlled, prospective, phase VII, multicenter, single-blind, three-arm randomized study of intramyocardial deliver of human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stromal cells (HUC-MSCs) combined with coronary artery bypass-grafting (CABG) n patients with chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy (CIC). The trial aimed to assess (i) the safety and the efficacy of cell transplantation during one-year follow-up, (ii) to compare the efficacy of HUC-MSCs with autologous bone-marrow-derived mononuclear cells (BM-MNCs) in the same clinical settings.