Nancy Nichols, heart patient
• Nancy is a 62-year-old who never smoked or had lung problems, but spent the past three years on oxygen for 24 hours a day. Instead of getting better, her health continued to deteriorate and no one knew why.
• She was referred to The University of Kansas Health System where they discovered she had a hole in her heart.
• Dr. Hajj repaired it and she said she felt like a new person.
• She credits him with saving her life. She was afraid she’d end up in a wheelchair in a nursing home, and now she feels great and is completely normal.
• She now serves as a minister to female inmates at the county jail.

Dr. Georges Hajj, interventional cardiologist, The University of Kansas Health System
• We used a test that goes into the patient’s throat to take quality pictures of the heart chambers and the membranes between those chambers.
• Through this process, we discovered Nancy had a hole in her heart.
• It’s called an atrial septal defect (ASD) and she was born with it.
• The procedures to correct this are pretty safe and the major risks are very rare. The technology today is amazing.
• I have the most rewarding job because of patients like Nancy. There’s nothing more rewarding than seeing how she is off of oxygen and living her life normally.
Misdiagnosed for years, stuck on oxygen, with no answers, until she came here, to The University of Kansas Health System. Meet the patient and the doctor who she says gave her life back!

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