ANDERSON TO HAVE SURGERY.Byline: Gene Guidi Detroit Free Press The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is sometimes informally referred to as the "Freep". Some still refer to it locally as "The Friendly" -- a slogan from an ad campaign in the '70s. Sparky Anderson Anderson, the former Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers The Detroit Tigers are a professional baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan. The Tigers are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Tigers have played in Comerica Park. manager, plans to have his heart surgery near his home in Thousand Oaks. He wants to be closer to his three children and 14 grandchildren during the surgery and subsequent recovery. Anderson's blockages were discovered Tuesday during a heart catherization at Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital Henry Ford Hospital is a hospital located in Detroit, Michigan a few blocks from Wayne State University and the New Center area, near the Fisher Building and Cadillac Place. The hospital was founded in 1915 by Henry Ford as a philanthropic project. . He was taken there after feeling ill during a celebrity golf tournament Monday in Ann Arbor. In a catherization, cardiologists insert a long, flexible tube, usually into an artery in the groin, and guide it to the heart. Once the tube is in place, they insert a dye that lights up the arteries to show any blockage. Anderson, 65, had experienced chest pain, shoulder discomfort and shortness of breath Shortness of Breath Definition Shortness of breath, or dyspnea, is a feeling of difficult or labored breathing that is out of proportion to the patient's level of physical activity. for about 10-12 days but thought he had the flu, said Dr. Stephen Smith, associate director of the coronary-care unit at Henry Ford. ``He became progressively symptomatic,'' Smith said. Smith said Anderson was lucky he did not have a heart attack and that the lesson to others was ``come on in'' immediately when symptoms occur. ``He's wiser now,'' Smith said. Smith has talked to Anderson's physician in Laguna Beach about transferring Anderson soon. ``He's stable at this point,'' Smith said. ``I don't see any great reason to hold him here.'' Anderson's blockages are on the right and left sides of the heart and in the circumflex circumflex /cir·cum·flex/ (serk´um-fleks) curved like a bow. cir·cum·flex adj. 1. Curving or bending around. 2. Bowed. circumflex curved like a bow. artery on the back of the heart. Smith said physicians tried to perform angioplasty Tuesday on Anderson's circumflex artery, but ``it didn't work well'' because the blockage was ``too hard to penetrate.'' Smith said bypass was the best choice because of the size and location of the blockage in the arteries. Anderson's blockages are ``responding well to medical therapy and he may not need bypass surgery Bypass surgery A surgical procedure that grafts blood vessels onto arteries to reroute the blood flow around blockages in the arteries (arteriosclerosis). on the right artery,'' Smith said. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (Color) ANDERSON FILE Managed Cincinnati from 1970-78 Managed Detroit from 1979-95 Won World Series titles in 1975, '76, '84 |
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