LASORDA RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Former Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda was released from Centinela Hospital Medical Center on Sunday, two days after undergoing angioplasty to clear a blocked artery. Lasorda walked out of the hospital shortly after 3 p.m., accompanied by his wife, Jo, and his cardiologist Cardiologist Doctor who specializes in diagnosing and treating heart diseases. Mentioned in: Electrophysiology Study of the Heart, Lithotripsy cardiologist a physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. , Anthony Reid Anthony Reid is a British auto racing driver, born on 17 May, 1957 in Glasgow, Scotland. Although Scottish he has a very upper-class-English sounding voice, due in no small part to his education at Oxford University. . Looking fit, the 69-year-old Lasorda cheerfully greeted a horde of reporters and television news crews. Lasorda said his doctors told him he needs to get more exercise, reduce stress and stick to a healthy diet. ``I ate the right foods, but I just ate too much of them,'' Lasorda said. ``And I think that's what everybody needs in this country. To be able to last a lot longer in life, eat properly, keep your weight down and exercise.'' Lasorda said he planned to attend the first birthday party for his granddaughter, Emily Tess Goldberg, before going home. Lasorda was admitted to Centinela on Friday with chest pain and underwent a second balloon angioplasty balloon angioplasty: see under angioplasty. to reopen an artery first unblocked on June 26. The procedure involves inserting a balloon-like catheter into the artery and inflating it to clear constrictive constrictive restricting movement or dilatation of an organ. material from the blood vessel blood vessel n. An elastic tubular channel, such as an artery, a vein, a sinus, or a capillary, through which the blood circulates. blood vessel(s), n the network of muscular tubes that carry blood. walls. Reid said Friday that 25 to 30 percent of patients who have the balloon angioplasty procedure experience the problem. Soon after the first surgery, Lasorda quit as the Dodgers' manager, a post he held for nearly 20 years. He is now a team vice president. |
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