Mobilization Induced by Subcutaneous Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor to Improve Cardiac Regeneration After Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction. Result of the Double-Blind Randomized Placebo Controlled STEMMI

This dissertation is based on the following original publications. These publications are referred to by their roman numerals in the text: I. Ripa RS, Wang Y, Jørgensen E, Johnsen HE, Hesse B, Kastrup J. Intramyocardial Injection of Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor-A165 Plasmid Followed by Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor to Induce Angiogenesis in Patients with Severe Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease. Eur Heart J 2006;27:178592. II. Ripa RS, Wang Y, Goetze JP, Jørgensen E, Johnsen HE, Tägil K, Hesse B, Kastrup J. Circulating Angiogenic Cytokines and Stem Cells in Patients with Severe Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease – Indicators of Myocardial Ischemic Burden? Int J Cardiol 2007;120:181-187. III. Ripa RS, Jørgensen E, Baldazzi F, Frikke-Schmidt R, Wang Y, Tybjærg-Hansen A, Kastrup J. The Influence of Genotype on Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor and Regulation of Myocardial Collateral Blood Flow in Patients with Acute and Chronic Coronary Heart Disease. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 2009;69:722-728. IV. Ripa RS, Jørgensen E, Wang Y, Thune JJ, Nilsson JC, Søndergaard L, Johnsen HE, Køber L, Grande P, Kastrup J. Stem Cell Mobilization Induced by Subcutaneous Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor to Improve Cardiac Regeneration After Acute ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction. Result of the Double-Blind Randomized Placebo Controlled STEMMI Trial. Circulation 2006;113:1983-1992. V. Ripa RS, Haack-Sørensen M, Wang Y, Jørgensen E, Mortensen S, Bindslev L, Friis T, Kastrup J. Bone Marrow-Derived Mesenchymal Cell Mobilization by Granulocyte-Colony Stimulating Factor after Acute Myocardial Infarction: Results from the Stem Cells in Myocardial Infarction (STEMMI) Trial. Circulation 2007;116(11 Suppl):I24-30. VI. Ripa RS, Nilsson JC, Wang Y, Søndergaard L, Jørgensen E, Kastrup J. Shortand Long-Term Changes in Myocardial Function, Morphology, Edema and Infarct Mass Following STSegment Elevation Myocardial Infarction Evaluated by Serial Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Am Heart J 2007;154:929-36. VII. Lyngbæk S, Ripa RS, Haack-Sørensen M, Cortsen A, Kragh L, Andersen CB, Jørgensen E, Kjær A, Kastrup J, Hesse B. Serial in vivo Imaging of the Porcine Heart After Percutaneous, Intramyocardially Injected Indium-Labeled Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 2010; 26:27384.