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How doctors closed rare heart defect, giving Kenyan woman second chance

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 Dr. VijaySinh Patil (left), an interventional cardiologist, with fellow staff members of The Nairobi West Hospital Cardiology Department, who did the operation. (Courtesy).

When 40-year-old Jackline Mudeizi walked into a Nairobi cardiac unit earlier this month, she carried with her a story familiar to many Kenyans.

A story of living with undiagnosed or unresolved heart conditions, years of unexplained fatigue, breathlessness and a lingering fear that something inside her chest was not quite right.

Mudeizi had for years been living with a large Atrial Septal Defect (ASD), a congenital "hole in the heart" measuring about 25 millimetres.

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