Sentences with phrase «fatal heart defects»

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Defects in mitochondrial DNA lead to devastating genetic diseases, with such symptoms as brain abnormalities, severe fatigue, blindness or defective heart function — and can be fatal.

«Once we identify that disruption, we can begin exploring ways to restore normal gene function during early heart formation — and reduce the number of babies born with debilitating, and sometimes fatal, congenital heart defects.»

At one end of the severity spectrum, early chronic valvular disease, some forms of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and some mild congenital heart defects may have little effect on an animal's lifestyle or life expectancy; at the other end, severe heart failure can interfere with even simple activities and prove rapidly fatal.

Joshua A. Stern, Washington State University, D09CA - 909 With his Pfizer Animal Health — MAF Fellowship, Joshua A. Stern, DVM, joins a team at Washington State University that may discover the genetic mutation that causes a fatal, congenital heart defect called subvalvular aortic stenosis in golden retrievers, one of America's most beloved breeds.