live on tuesday night. dr. isom, you tell them what you did to me. your doctor called me on that and actually sent me the films, the angiograms which i could see, and actually your other grafts were all open and your right graft which is the one that closed off was still open 23 years later, but it had narrowed down a little bit in the front part of it. larry: that s plaque, right? probably that s what it is. they were able to slide a stent or a couple of little stents in there and open it up. so that vein graft is still open. it s got the stent in that larry: does the balloon go in? the balloon goes in. larry: what does the stent do? actually, you know, when the angioplasty first started, the balloon it opened it up and 40% of it would come back. they started putting stents in then it would stay open longer but 35% of those would come back. then they started putting the medicated stents in and it looks
what, dr. isom, is his prognosis would you say? short term, long term? i think his prognosis is great, especially the fact those other vessels, those other grafts are open. as i said that s your million-dollar life insurance. if those will stay open, in fact, internal mammary will keep you alive forever. larry: other quick things for the panel. sanjay, what part in this does stress play? reporter: i don t think it plays a big part in this particular situation. obviously stress is associated with lots of different diseases. i think it s pretty clear. people are saying maybe this was related to his trip he took to haiti and was that too stressful for him? in this particular case it sounds pretty clear this was a natural progression of something that had happened back in his operation in 2004. that was sort of the wake-up call for him, as dr. schwartz pointed out. now 2010, 6 years later he had some gradual closing off of one
a passion for life but as paul begala just said a passion for helping others. bill clinton has a big, big heart. just not a very strong heart. larry: yeah. and terry i know you re going to go see him tomorrow. you let us know tomorrow night, too, won t you? you bet. he ll be raring to go. you know that, larry rk dr. isom, you re saying this may have been a good thing, right? let me comment on one thing that s mentioned about stress. if you take somebody like bill clinton and say, go sit in the rocking chair and don t do anything, they get sick. some people need to you ve done, what, 7,000 shows since yours. letterman s done it. you want to be busy. if you take somebody who s the type a personality and stop them then they have problems. larry: can t stop. thanks, wayne. thanks, panel. lot more tomorrow night on heart disease this valentine s weekend with the concentration, of course, on the former president. new york governor david
tdd# 1-800-345-2550 at charles schwab investors rule. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 are you ready to rule? larry: dr. wayne isom, chairman of the department of cardiothoracic surgery who did my surgery, david letterman, walter cronkite, a host ofs others. paul begala in washington. dr. sanjay gupta, cnn s chief medical correspondent in port-au-prince, haiti. david gergen, former adviser to president clinton in boston. on the phone, terry mcauliffe, close friend of the president s, former chairman of the hillary clinton presidential campaign. quick look back. president clinton called into this show just before his heart surgery in 2004. listen. i know what s involved and i know what the options are. i mean, i think that there s