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Nearly a third of babies born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, or HLHS, die of heart failure before their first birthday. Now a study has uncovered the cellular processes that cause heart failure in these young patients, paving the way for identifying and treating those most at risk of premature death.
Published today in “Cell Stem Cell” by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (USA), the study has seen that two commonly used drugs, Viagra and tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA), restored the processes that cause heart failure in cells. derived from patients, opening potential avenues for new treatments for HLHS.