Pioneering surgery cuts out scalpel
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Written by: MEGAN GILLIS
Dr. Marc Ruel has pioneered the surgical technique of placing grafts on a beating heart through an incision a little bigger than a paper-clip.
But even more revolutionary is his research at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute into using cells transplanted from the bloodstream to regenerate the heart without using a scalpel at all.
It's made the surgeon, scientist and scholar the first cardiovascular surgeon to win the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons' prestigious gold medal in surgery.
"Our work at the Heart Institute shows the potential to regenerate the heart and takes us one more step toward new treatments to restore heart function," Ruel said. "We are just scratching the surface in this area. But our cardiac surgery research team is still growing, moving us into the future with a new vision of how cardiac research will evolve."
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Ruel won the gold medal for research that suggests that transplanted cells from the patient's bloodstream could be used to regenerate blood vessels, restoring blood supply to the heart.
Ruel studied medicine at the University of Ottawa but left Canada for a fellowship at Harvard University. He was lured back to Canada with a grant from the Canadian Centre for Innovation, which allowed him to set up a lab.
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