Arnold Schwarzenegger, who underwent elective heart surgery to replace a valve in 1997, was getting a second operation to unblock another valve. Complications led to emergency hour-long open-heart surgeryArnold Schwarzenegger, 70, underwent a scheduled procedure called a transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement (TPVR) on Thursday. However, during the operation the former governor suffered complications which led to hours-long emergency open heart surgery. Many can go years without pulmonary heart valve issues being spotted, since the symptoms of fatigue, arrhythmia and shortness of breath. TPVR operations are associated with shorter hospital stays compared to open surgery, but produce near-identical results.

Source: Daily Mail March 30, 2018 16:33 UTC