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However, due to the very limited regenerative capacity of mature cardiomyocytes in the adult mammalian heart, conventional treatments can only improve the symptoms of HF but fail to restore cardiac function. Heart transplantation is limited by a severe shortage of donors. Cell-based transplantation for the treatment of HF has become a promising strategy. Human-induced-pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) have been tested in animal models to assess safety and efficacy. This study aims at evaluating the safety and efficacy of epicardial injection of hiPSC-CMs in patients with advanced HF during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      This study is a dose-escalation, placebo-controlled, single-centre phase I\/IIa clinical trial. Dose escalation will be guided by a modified 3+3 design for three doses (1\u00d710\n                      <jats:sup>8<\/jats:sup>\n                      , 2\u00d710\n                      <jats:sup>8<\/jats:sup>\n                      \u2009and 4\u00d710\n                      <jats:sup>8<\/jats:sup>\n                      cells, sequentially). Patients with advanced heart failure will be enrolled and randomly allocated to receive epicardial injection of hiPSC-CMs during CABG surgery or CABG surgery alone, followed by a 12-month follow-up investigation. The primary endpoint is to assess the safety of hiPSC-CMs transplantation, including haemodynamic compromised sustained ventricular arrhythmias and newly formed tumours during 6 months postoperatively. The secondary endpoint is to evaluate the efficacy of epicardial injection of hiPSC-CMs and CABG surgery combination by comparison with CABG surgery alone.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Ethics and dissemination<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study protocol has been approved by the Institutional Ethical Committee of Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital (No. SC202000102) and approved by National Health Commission of the PRC (MR-32-21-014649). 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