ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 9, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aastrom Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq:ASTM), the leading developer of patient-specific expanded multicellular therapies for the treatment of severe chronic cardiovascular diseases, today announced that the first patient has been enrolled in the REVIVE Phase 3 clinical trial of ixmyelocel-T. The REVIVE study is currently underway in the United States to assess the efficacy and safety of ixmyelocel-T in the treatment of no option patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI).