Ex-President Lee has minor heart surgery

Former President Lee Teng-hui underwent minor heart surgery to insert stents yesterday at Taipei’s Veterans General Hospital.

Doctors inserted a balloon to help open his narrowed arteries to allow them to implant stents more easily. Altogether, the 84-year-old former president has had 11 stents implanted.

The surgery was a success, with Lee recovering well, but he will stay in the hospital for two or three days for observation, doctors said.

Doctors diagnosed Lee — who has had heart surgery three times before — with a narrowed coronary artery last month during the former president’s routine checkup at the hospital.

Doctors ruled out a coronary bypass surgery considering his age, and instead conducted less invasive cauterization surgery.

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