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Angiogram. there is new way to see if there is blockage. once they found the blockage they put a catheter through an artery in the groin this morning, fed it up to the heart and put a balloon in and dilated the part of the artery that was closed. they put a stent in. jenna: im curious what a stent look like. sometimes we show animation. you actually have one you have permission to use outside after procedure. >> even though it is expensive they want to show it on tva stent is really tiny. you fe...

Operation, any invasive procedure is going to be taken seriously and there are potential risks to that operation and that procedure and there are potential risks down the line as well. basically what happens here is, you know, pretty simple plumbing, betty. i dont want to trivialize this. i think you might be looking at some animation. you put these metal scaffoldings into the artery and open up those areas that are blocked and those stents stay in the blood vessel and hold that artery open, all...

Over there and then just days later these chest pains were not very strong at all. and then they got worse. you have talked to him? >> i havent talked to him. im not going to try to talk to him. im sure he needs rest. i might try to call my friend doug band when things quiet down to get a first-hand report. look, he has what most people after bypass operations, is my understanding, talking to some doctors today, experienced. which is some coagulation and a need for a stent. all the stent is for ...

Angiography. again, he did not have a heart attack or any damage to his heart. the pictures were taken of the arteries that supply blood to the heart and of the four bypass graphs he had six years ago. one of the bypass graphs was completely blocked. because of that and the fact he was having repetitive symptoms at rest he was treated with two stents that were placed into his own coronary artery. that is the artery that had been supplied previously by his bypass was open by the placement of two ...

Sense of it than to say bill clinton was the same old bill clinton. >> he had two stents put into a, what, a coronary artery? i know we have an animation of that. describe what the procedure is. >> i dont want to belittle this at all but basically its plumbing. you have blood vessels that provide blood to the heart. in in this case the heart wasnt getting enough oxygenated blood. in this case, you know, hes had the bypass before as we were talking about, anderson. actually put -- bypass the bloc...

Hadnt missed a step. as far as conversations with him it was clear this guy is very focused on haiti. it did not seem to me there was any problem at all. it was also clear he had a whole lot of stuff he had to do with regard to haiti and people made so much of that. you know, i cant make any other sense of it than to say bill clinton was the same old bill clinton. >> he had two stents put into a, what, a coronary artery? i know we have an animation of that. describe what the procedure is. >> i d...

Into the artery, it expands and they insert the stents which are wire meshes that keep that artery open. about 1 million americans get this procedure every year. one of his cardiologists, there. allan schwartz told us the former president is going to be fine but he can say it is a chronic condition. >> we dont have the cure for this condition, however, we have excellent treatments that involve lifestyle modification, medications, and occasionally when necessary, procedures. also, president clint...

York university school of medicine. good evening. thank you for coming in. >> hi, bret. >> bret: listen, heart disease is the number one killer in the u.s. once you are a heart patient you are always a heart patient. for the former president, break it down for someone at home, how serious is this? >> i interviewed dr. craig smith for the "washington post" in 2004 after the surgery. what he told me was that president clinton had very extensive disease throughout his coronary arteries and he had t...

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