Athens News Agency: News in English, 07-01-09
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[01] Mitsotakis undergoes successful bypass surgery
[01] Mitsotakis undergoes successful bypass surgery
Honourary New Democracy party President and former prime minister
Constantine Mitsotakis underwent a bypass operation with success on
Tuesday, according to an announcement by the Onassio Cardiosurgery
Centre. It added that his post-operation course is developing
smoothly.
The announcement further said that his pre-operation assessment had
been completed on Tuesday morning by the First Cardiological
Department, with the attending doctors being professor Dionysios
Kokkinos and the Department's deputy director Vassilios Voudris.
The operation, that began at 16:00, was successfully completed at
20:20.
Mitsotakis was hospitalised at the Onassion on Monday afternoon for
sceduled medical examinations, and the surgery was decided on Tuesday
following the completion and assessment of the examinations, as well as
complaints of discomfort by Mitsotakis over the preceding four days,
and arrhythmia.
An Onassion medical bulletin had said that the results of the
examinations ascertained the need for bypass surgery.
Mitsotakis' daughter, foreign minister Dora Bakyannis, and his son, MP
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, and other family members were at the former prime
minister's side.
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