Heart failure stem cell trial pulled before it began

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Patients above 18 years of age * Written informed consent * Anticipated to be able to participate during the entire study period * Diagnosed with non-ischemic heart failure with initial LVEF ≤ 40% and then up-titrated to maximal tolerable heart failure medication within the last 12 months * Symptomatic heart failure (NYHA II-III) * LVEF ≤ 45 % documented by echocardiography, CT or MRI performed after up-titration of heart failure medication (documentation of reduced LVEF at least after 1 and 3 months if implantation of a device either an Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) or Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy (CRT), respectively) * Plasma Pro-BNP \> 300 pg/ml (\> 35 pmol/L) in patients with sinus rhythm and plasma Pro-BNP \> 422 pg/ml (\> 49 pmol/L) in patients with atrial fibrillation. Exclusion Criteria: * NYHA I or IV heart failure * Documented ischemic heart failure * On-going alcohol abuse * Implantation of CRT within 3 months or ICD within 1 month * Acute coronary syndrome with elevation of CKMB (Creatine Phosphatase-Myocardial Band) or troponins, stroke or transitory cerebral ischemia within six weeks of inclusion * Expected to undergo screening for heart transplantation during the study time * Listed for heart transplantation * Other cardiac revascularization treatments to be performed * Moderate to severe aortic stenosis (valve area \< 1.1 cm2) or clinically significant mitral valve disease * Diminished functional capacity for other reasons such as: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) with forced expiratory volume (FEV) \< 1 L/min or body mass index \> 35kg/m2 * Clinically significant anaemia (haemoglobin \< 6 mmol/L), leukopenia (leucocytes \< 2 109/L), leucocytosis (leucocytes \>14 109/L) or thrombocytopenia (thrombocytes \< 50 109/L) * History with malignant disease within five years of inclusion or current suspected malignancy - except treated skin cancer other than melanoma * Patients with known hypersensitivity to DMSO and Dextran-40. * Pregnant women * Other experimental treatment within four weeks from baseline tests * Participation in another interventional trial