- Heart drug can create blood vessel within days

  • 24/02/1998

Doctors in Germany have developed an experimental drug that creates the blood supply to the human heart within days after injection, according to a report in an American medical journal. It is the first time that a drug has led to growth of new coronary blood vessels by mimicking the way collateral vessels naturally develop in some people with blocked arteries. Dr. Thomas-Joseph Stegmann, was the head of the team which made this discovery.