Defective cilia linked to heart valve birth defects

Bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) is most common heart valve defect one most common defects any type, two leaflets are fused together, valves eventually will be replaced or repaired heart surgery. A team researchers at Medical South Carolina (MUSC) discovered that a mutation a gene controlling cilia, are linked development BAV. Defective cilia linked an article published online 7, team used models human data reveal that BAV disease aortic valve narrowing are by disruption defects cilia.

A team of 35 medical professionals from Open Heart International (OHI) in Australia are currently in Tonga performing open heart surgery on locals with rheumatic heart disease. At Vaiola Hospital, OHI Chief surgeon volunteer, Dr Bruce French, said since his first visit to Tonga in 2011 to date, the number of open-heart surgeries performed in Tonga is still the same. But he attributed this to a screening program run in schools, which detects early rheumatic heart disease. The screening “doesn’t happen anywhere else in the world”. “There is no reduction in aortic valve disease the amount of operations. I think it’s being detected more commonly now than in the past,” he said. “As a result of that program, not only are children with early rheumatic heart disease being detected but also Tongan children with congenital heart disease, yet to cause symptoms, are being picked up. ” “And this is, I would have to say, something worth celebrating in Tonga,” he said. Dr French, who has been volunteering his services in Tonga since 2011, will be retiring soon and chose Tonga as his last volunteer stint.

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