Arnold Schwarzenegger Undergoes Open-Heart Surgery: Report
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Arnold Schwarzenegger Undergoes Open-Heart Surgery: Report
Arnold Schwarzenegger has undergone heart surgery and his condition is stable, Access confirmed.
The "Terminator" star went to Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles for a procedure to replace a pulmonic valve that was originally replaced due to a congenital heart defect in 1997. Initial reports claimed that there were complications with his procedure, which led doctors to do open heart surgery. However, Arnold's team confirmed that was not the case, that the open heart surgery team was just on-call in case something went wrong.
"Yesterday Governor Schwarzenegger underwent a planned procedure at Cedars-Sinai to replace d a pulmonic valve that was originally replaced due to a congenital heart defect in 1997. That 1997 replacement valve was never meant to be permanent, and has outlived its life expectancy, so he chose to replace it yesterday through a less-invasive catheter valve replacement," Daniel Ketchell a spokesperson..