Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) is a common congenital abnormality of the heart that can cause severe complications such as arrhythmias, heart failure, and sudden cardiac death. To date, the causes of MVP ...

Genetic mutations in heart valve cells of the developing fetus lead to mitral valve prolapse, report a global collaborative of researchers. These mutations or genetic variations cause defects in ...

Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), the most common heart valve birth defect, is associated with genetic variation in human primary cilia during heart valve development, report researchers. Crucial to cilia ...

A global research collaborative including Medical University of South Carolina investigators report in today's Science Translational Medicine that defects in the primary cilia of the developing fetus ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A non-surgically implanted heart valve meant to delay open heart surgery in children with congenital heart defects worked well for all but a few patients during a year of follow ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A non-surgically implanted heart valve meant to delay open heart surgery in children with congenital heart defects worked well for all but a few patients during a year of follow ...

NOTE: A link to videos of the developing heart is at end of the release. The human heart confounds logic by starting to beat before it is fully formed —a developmental oddity shared by all vertebrate ...

WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - A non-surgically implanted heart valve meant to delay open heart surgery in children with congenital heart defects worked well for all but a few patients during a year ...

KOCHI: Once upon a time, the only option to treat heart diseases was open heart surgery. As technology developed, the possibilities for treating heart conditions through minimally invasive procedures ...

WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - A non-surgically implanted heart valve meant to delay open heart surgery in children with congenital heart defects worked well for all but a few patients during a year ...

Bidirectional signalling is regarded as a notable hallmark of the Eph-ephrin signalling system: Eph-dependent forward signalling in Eph-expressing cells and ephrin-dependent reverse signalling in ...