Bret Michaels undergoing heart surgery
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Bret Michaels is undergoing heart surgery in Phoenix where doctors will repair a hole in his heart that has been there since birth.
Surgeons at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center are performing a cardiac catheterization, which would stop blood from abnormally flowing between two chambers in his heart. The procedure requires inserting a scope in the groin area and guiding a closure device to repair his heart. Without the procedure, Michaels, 47, would have a higher risk of developing blood clots and suffering from another stroke.
The hole was discovered when the former Poison frontman was recovering from a brain hemorrhage last April, 10 days after an emergency appendectomy.
‘Barring any complications, I should be out within three to four days,’ he told The Arizona Republic. ‘Then, I will be down [resting] for three weeks. I don’t know if I can sit around for that long, but I’ll try my best.’
The cowboy-hat-and-bandanna-clad rocker auctioned off his 1969 Camaro Custom Coupe for $200,000 in Scottsdale, Ariz., over the weekend and donated a portion of the proceeds to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
He won the third cycle of ‘The Celebrity Apprentice 3’ and recently asked his longtime girlfriend Kristi Gibson to marry him.
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