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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.

 

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