Susan Lucci Reveals She Underwent a Second Emergency Heart Procedure
etonline.comSusan Lucci has revealed that she underwent a second procedure for heart disease. The 75-year-old actress shared that she experienced the same symptoms that she felt when she had her first heart scare in 2018 including shortness of breath and discomfort in her ribcage and back. «I thought, 'This is crazy.
These are the same kind of symptoms that I had three years ago but it can't be,'» she said on on Monday. «But when I lay down, I started to feel a sharp coming-and-going pain in my jaw.» After calling her doctor — who told her to go to the emergency room — she went in for tests which concluded that she had an 80 percent blockage in one of her arteries as a result of a buildup of plague.
Lucci shared that she was rushed to the cardiac catheterization lab, where another stent was put in her heart to open the blockage.
Lucci was informed by her doctor that if she had waited for her symptoms to get worse, it could have been a “major emergency.” In 2019, the actress revealed to ET at the time of her first event, she felt pressure on her chest on three different occasions.
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