{"id":158484,"date":"2018-03-31T02:45:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-31T06:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=158484"},"modified":"2018-04-04T06:06:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T10:06:07","slug":"arnold-schwarzenegger-is-stable-after-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/03\/31\/arnold-schwarzenegger-is-stable-after-heart-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Schwarzenegger is stable after heart surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr. Arnold Schwarzenegger during 65th International Film Festival of San Sebastian (Photo By Mario Pena – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LOS ANGELES — Arnold Schwarzenegger is recovering in a Los Angeles hospital after undergoing heart surgery.<\/p>\n

The 70-year-old former California governor had a scheduled procedure to replace a pulmonic valve on Thursday, according to Schwarzenegger’s spokesman, Daniel Ketchell. He was in stable condition on Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis first words were actually ‘I’m back,\u201d so he is in good spirits,\u201d Ketchell tweeted.<\/p>\n

The operation was necessary to replace a valve that had originally been installed in 1997 for a congenital heart defect. \u201cThat 1997 replacement valve was never meant to be permanent, and has outlived its life expectancy,\u201d Ketchell said. Schwarzenegger opted for a less-invasive catheter valve replacement procedure.<\/p>\n

An open-heart surgery team was ready during the procedure, but Ketchell said their presence wasn’t unusual in such circumstances.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn’t an emergency. It was a planned surgery,\u201d he told The Associated Press. \u201cThe open heart was the backup option.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schwarzenegger was a bodybuilding star before turning to movies. His career as an action hero took off with the box-office hit \u201cConan the Barbarian\u201d in 1982. His role in the \u201cTerminator\u201d in 1984 propelled him into box-office superstardom. He served as governor of California from 2003 to 2011.<\/p>\n

In addition to his heart ailments, Schwarzenegger had a motorcycle crash in 2001 that left him with several broken ribs. He’s had a hip replaced and had rotator cuff surgery in 2003. A 2006 skiing accident broke his right femur, an injury that required a complicated surgery to repair. It also forced Schwarzenegger to hobble on crutches during his second gubernatorial inauguration and several major events.<\/p>\n

Schwarzenegger appeared in Los Angeles last week with Ohio Gov. John Kasich to promote a new version of the California GOP that would be more inclusive and would have a willingness to work with Democrats on immigration and climate change.<\/p>\n

Schwarzenegger, a registered Republican, is known for his varied political stripes. In 2007 he warned that the GOP was \u201cdying at the box office\u201d and needed to claim issues usually associated with the Democratic agenda, such as climate change and health care reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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