Former President Bill Clinton was hospitalized with chest pains on Thursday and had two stents inserted, according to an adviser.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton left Washington and traveled to New York to support her husband, who had the stent procedure at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
Stents are small mesh scaffolds used to hold an artery open after it is unclogged during angioplasty. Physicians thread a tube through a blood vessel located in the groin to a blocked artery, inflate a balloon to clear the offending clog, and move the stent into place.
Clinton was also hospitalized back in 2004 and had quadruple bypass surgery due to four blocked arteries.
With bypass surgery, most patients frequently require a separate procedure later on due to the arteries often reclogging.
Complications are rare and the mortality rate from non-emergency angioplasty less than 1 percent.
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