Ebstein's anomaly is a rare heart defect that's present at birth (congenital). In Ebstein's anomaly, thetricuspid valve — the valve between the two right heart chambers — doesn't work properly.

Kimberly Holst, M.D., is a general and thoracic surgery resident at Mayo Clinic and a resident in the Clinician Investigator Training Program. She received a research grant recipient from Regenerative Medicine Minnesota for a Phase I study in order to establish the safety and feasibility of intramyocardial injection of autologous bone marrow-derived stem cells into the myopathic right ventricle of patients with Ebstein anomaly at time of elective cardiac surgery.

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