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Hadn't 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 can't 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 don't want to belittle this but basically it's plumbing. you from blood vessels that provide blood ...

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 don't have the cure for this condition, however, we have excellent treatments that involve lifestyle modification, medications, and occasionally when necessary, procedures. also, president clinton responded appropriately and promptly to warning symptoms that had been discussed with him on num...

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 to have four grafts put in. as eric said, five years afterwards, high probability of one of the graph...

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