Posted on 03/30/2018 9:23:02 AM PDT by EdnaMode
This is not the first time Arnold has gone under the knife for heart surgery. He had an aortic valve replaced in 1997. At the time doctors didn’t feel the procedure was urgently needed, but Arnold decided to do it while he was still young. He also said at the time the condition was congenital and had nothing to do with steroids.
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IIRC, he had his first surgery in Mexico and told nobody about it including his wife. Mexico does have a few excellent hospitals for their upper class light skinned people.
Then he went back to lifting weights too soon and damaged the valve and had to have it done again. A catheter replacement isn’t all that big a deal if it goes well. This will be his third open heart surgery.
Take the guy on the left, add forty pounds, shave the beard, and yes, that could be me!
Long-term anabolic steroid use may weaken heart more than previously thought:
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Most likely it is congenital (it’s common), but a lot of weightlifters have to get aortic valves replaced from the pressure they put on them. They are nuts in my opinion.
Not if you overdo it ... which can probably be applied to anything.
Best wishes for a quick recovery.
I watched one from last year “Killing Gunther”. I thought it was pretty funny.
Ah, the cost of ‘roids...
Open heart surgery is fun... they crack open your chest, stop your heart and put in vein grafts from your legs to restore its function - then they restart it.
You’ll need lots of nursing home care for awhile because you’re too weak to stand without a lot of effort and your sternum needs to heal. Plus several months to regain full strength.
I’m glad I had it done in my mid-50s.
He should have a brain transplant while he’s at it.
All that exercising to build muscle probably blew a heart valve. It did on me, (Mitral valve)and I still don’t have not built muscle mass anywhere.
No big loss if he doesn’t make it. People die everyday.
Well...film star anyway.
If you read another article, he has heart disease that runs in his family. Both his Mother and Grandmother had heart valve problems.
Commando, the Musical was pretty good.
Great acting doesn’t have to be in the traditional sense. Arnold reinvented the action movie genre, and that alone puts him among the greats in Hollywood.
He is 70 and in ER....I am 76 working..no medications ...just at 345lb leg press.
If it is congenital then it is probably a bicuspid aortic valve. About 2% of the population is born with this defect as opposed to a normal tricuspid valve. They can be detected by listening for a heart murmur. A bicuspid aortic valve gets stenotic, ie. encrusted with calcium, around your 50s. The stenosis leads to it not being able to open as much and reduced blood flow. It can be replaced with a biologic valve engineered from bovine pericardium tissue or an artificial valve made from some fancy alloy. The artificial valve requires you to take blood thinners for the rest of your life. The biologic valve tend to get stenosis and stiffen with age, requiring a replacement. They can now implant a biologic valve using a catheter procedure. It can be implanted over a stenosic natural valve or a failing biologic replacement.
So was he born with a bicuspid aortic valve?
Foie gras overdose.
I’ve never seen that explicitly stated.
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