Doug Bergman drove 240 miles to have his heart stabbed by a needle from the inside out. Now he hopes the stem cells that may be in that needle will change his life.
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It's just before 2 p.m. on a Tuesday in August, and Doug Bergman and his sister are waiting patiently in his room on the cardiology floor of the Minneapolis Heart Institute. There's a copy of Elie Wiesel's Night on the table by his bed. For a man about to have a needle stuck into his heart ten times, Bergman is remarkably calm.
Bergman, who lives 240 miles away in Rochert, Minnesota, has been in Minneapolis since the previous Saturday. He's taking part in ACT34-CMI, a clinical trial designed to test whether injection of autologous CD34+ cells directly into the myocardium will reduce the number of anginal episodes suffered by ...
