chennai for forty two years aparna has been living with a hole in the heart and the complications it has caused recently when she came into fortis malar hospital with excruciating pain in the abdomen were worried tests showed multiple fibroids in the uterus warranted a surgery but heart condition meant that surgery 90 risk aparna s family agreed and say they did an rare surgery no child born in the with the disease and untreated has managed to live so they said but the successful aparna stood with team of doctors and smiled at the flashing cameras all my trouble is over yet but i nt have to crawl pain anymore i can walk and even go on a holiday if i wish she said doctors gave a pat said were a detailed report for publishing her case medical journals may and hopefully will see another her now children with a hole in the heart operated at young age thanks to the advanced technology and said interventional cardiologist dr madan mohan a child aparna was nt when she was six months old doctors her defect a birth defect in which a hole occurs in the wall septum that separates the heart s chambers this hole allows to pass from the left to side the heart and thereby the rich blood pumped back into lungs causing both the heart and the lung to work harder small defects may cause no problems ones surgical repair early in life my parents but at that time paediatric heart surgery was its the hole in my heart huge and doctors to do the surgery aparna said so aparna managed with medications over a period time the arteries the vessels that carry impure blood to the lungs oxygenation were so overworked that became dilated and blood pressure to a called eisenmenger s syndrome she has been in and of hospital but we have managed to the heart disease under control medicines diet monitoring said interventional cardiologist dr madan as one of the complications of the disease aparna developed uterine fibroids 20 cm tumour that pressing against the ureter she could hardly walk with tumour i knew i had to do something despite the risk we wheeled her in a hysterectomy said senior obstetrician gynaecologists dr nithyaa ramamurthy specialists including and cardiologists to be called for by the time when dr nithyaa cut open her abdomen we removed the uterus and ovaries the surgery uneventful a later she was fit for discharge she said aparna may have to on medications for her she