Marathon News - Salazar Has Stent Implanted

Oct-19-2007

Salazar Has Stent Implanted
by David Monti
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Alberto Salazar, the American marathon legend who suffered a heart attack last June, had another heart episode, according to an article by Doug Binder in the The Oregonian newspaper.

Salazar, 49, felt dizzy and had an uncomfortable sensation in his neck and had to be driven to the hospital by Galen Rupp, the University of Oregon athlete whose training he supervises. Doctors installed a stent in Salazar's left anterior descending artery "which was discovered to be 90% blocked," the article said.