Italian Silvio Berlusconi to have heart surgery next week

 

Italy: 79 Years old former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been diagnosed of a serious case of aortic insufficiency and will undergo surgery to replace the valve said doctors. Alberto
Zangrillo, personal doctor to Berlusconi, told reporters on Thursday that the billionaire businessman will be ‘‘better than before” after the four hour surgery, which is scheduled to take place before the middle of next week.

Berlusconi will undergo surgery by the middle of next week to replace a defective aortic valve, Alberto Zangrillo told reporters in Rome.

On Sunday, Berlusconi, who has a pacemaker, reported heart irregularities from Rome and Mr Zangrillo urged him to return to Milan to be checked.
Dr Zangrillo said a team of doctors at Milan’s San Raffaele clinic ran a battery of tests and diagnosed a serious case of aortic insufficiency, which describes the leaking of the aortic valve of the heart causing blood to flow in the reverse direction.