In a new treatment, stem cells will be injected in heart attack patients.

Further attacks are prevented as blood vessels and damaged heart muscles are rebuilt by these cells.

Positive results have come from initial tests and later this year there will be more trials in which many British patients will be involved.

Several lives will be saved if this trial is successful and across the NHS, the pioneering procedure could be available within five years.

Cells that are put to use can be used off the shelf as cells are not needed from a patient after a heart attack and comes from adult donors making it a very cost-effective procedure.

The cells will also not face a problem of being rejected by a patient as the type used does not need a match donor.

Every minute, one person dies due to a heart disease in the UK.

The UK’s lead investigator in the research, Dr Jonathan Hill, a cardiologist at King’s College Hospital in London, said, “The treatment ‘offers the hope of a fully functioning lifestyle’ to a wide range of heart patients.”