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Friday, September 03, 2004Senator Clinton said her husband first experienced mild chest pains and a shortness of breath on Thursday at home in Chappaqua, and went with his Secret Service escort to Northern Westchester Hospital in nearby Mount Kisco, where initial tests showed nothing extraordinary. Mr. Clinton returned home for the night and told his wife, who had begun a three-day trip upstate on Thursday, that he "felt fine and not to worry," she recalled. ....Rising before dawn, Mr. Clinton went to the Westchester County Medical Center in Valhalla, arriving about 6 a.m. A nurse, Donna Florio-Bronen, said he walked in under his own power and was "very pleasant, very upbeat" and "looked great." Three cardiologists were present - Dr. Ronald Wallach, Dr. Carmine A. Sorbera and Dr. Anthony L. Pucillo - and Dr. Pucillo performed an angiogram, an X-ray in which an opaque dye is injected into the blood to outline the contours of the coronary arteries. The X-rays, Dr. Pucillo said, revealed "multivessel coronary artery disease, normal heart function and no heart attack." Mr. Clinton was taken by ambulance to Milstein Hospital, the main treatment facility at New York Presbyterian's Columbia campus, at West 168th Street and Broadway in Washington Heights. The center is a renowned medical teaching institution whose cardiovascular treatment facility is widely regarded as being among the best in the nation. His initial tests must have shown something out of the ordinary or they wouldn't have gone right to an angiogram the next morning. And he has multi-vessel disease - also very serious. The operation he'll be having is explained in detail here. Say a prayer to St. John of God for him. posted by Sydney on 9/03/2004 11:56:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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