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Former President Ford Gets Angioplasty

Friday, August 25, 2006 4:07:21 PM
By CHRIS WILLIAMS

 Former President Gerald Ford is shown in this, Jan. 17, 2003, file photo in Indian Wells, Calif. Ford received a cardiac pacemaker Monday at the Mayo Clinic, a top aide said.  Ford, 93, was resting comfortably after the operation, and his wife and children were with him, according to a statement issued Monday, Aug. 21, 2006, by Penny Circle, his chief of staff. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, file)MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Former President Ford underwent his second heart procedure in a week at the Mayo Clinic when stents were placed into two of his coronary arteries to increase blood flow, his spokeswoman said Friday.

The angioplasty procedure on the 93-year-old Ford was successful and he was resting comfortably in his room at the hospital in Rochester, spokeswoman Penny Circle said in a statement.

On Monday, doctors at the clinic had fitted Ford with an implantable cardiac pacemaker to regulate his heartbeat.


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