Understanding Zardari’s Heart Trouble:
President Asif Ali Zardari had a “cardiac episode” on Tuesday and was flown to Dubai the same evening for a check-up, according to a government source. Some of the medicines “did not agree” with Zardari but the president’s prognosis is good, says our source. Zardari is known to have coronary artery disease, blockages in the arteries of his heart. During his stay in the U.S., before his return to Pakistan in end-2007, it was well known in Pakistani-American physician circles that he had an angioplasty and stenting procedure performed to open one of his blocked arteries. Earlier this year, Zardari had angiography done in the U.K. to determine whether his stents were open and working properly. There were some rumors that another blocked artery was discovered and another stent was placed to keep it open. However, he received a clean bill of health at that time and has been quite well since then. Zardari has three stents in his heart. There were med...
