Childhood heart surgery not permanent.

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Pioneering generation may face serious problems later in life, doctors find AP : Associated Press Updated: 5:55 p.m. ET Jan. 23, 2006 WASHINGTON - One of medicine’s greatest triumphs is hitting a snag: Up to 1 million people born with once-lethal heart defects now have grown up, a pioneering generation largely unaware that heart repairs can wear out as they approach middle age. Few even get cardiac checkups, apparently believing they were cured as children — although a surgical repair isn’t a cure. Worse, few cardiologists outside of children’s hospitals have any idea how to care for these special hearts. Read more at: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10993947/ "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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