Promising Therapeutic Effects of Cell Sheet Implantation with a Pedicle Omentum Flap to Enhance the Angiogenic Response to Ischemic Cardiomyopathy

Yasuhiro Shudo¹, Shigeru Miyagawa¹, Satsuki Fukushima¹, Satoshi Kainuma¹, Atsuhiro Saito¹, Koichi Toda¹, Hiroyuki Nishi¹, Yasushi Yoshikawa¹, Akima Harada¹, Toshihiko Asanuma³, Satoshi Nakatani³, Tatsuya Shimizu², Teruo Okano² and Yoshiki Sawa^1*

¹Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan

²Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Tokyo, Japan

³Department of Health Sciences, Division of Functional Diagnostics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan