Williams Undergoes Open-Heart Surgery
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NEW YORK — Former Red Sox slugger Ted Williams underwent nine hours of open-heart surgery Monday at New York Presbyterian Hospital, the Boston Globe reported in today’s editions.
“I think things went well,” Dr. Wayne Isom, head of the surgical team, told the Globe late Monday night. “The next 48 hours is the critical period. It’ll be touch and go, but I’m an optimist. I think we’ll get him through it.”
Isom replaced the mitral valve in Williams’s heart with a tissue, or “pig” valve and repaired the tricuspid valve.
Isom said the operation was unusually lengthy because of excessive bleeding caused by medication Williams had been taking.
Williams was still in intensive care late Monday, listed as critical, and doctors predicted he would remain in the Manhattan hospital for 10-14 days.
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