This is a randomized, double-blinded study, where patients treated with thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction are randomized to receive bone-marrow derived stem cells or sham-infusion at the time percutaneous coronary intervention of the target vessel. The end-points are many arrhythmia risk variables, suchs as heart rate variability, T-wave alternans and many ECG variables as well as systolic and diastolic left ventricular function.
This study is aimed to assess the effect of bone marrow cells on arrhythmia risk variables in patients with a acute myocardial infarction.