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joining us now dr. sanjay gupta. talk to us about the procedure, the two stents, and what that tells you about the senator s heart. well, first of all, procedure is the right word as opposed to an operation. i think a lot of people here hear heart procedure, they think he had open heart surgery. this is a much less invasive type thing where you re actually putting a catheter into one of the arteries around the heart. if we have some animation to show this. that stent balloons up, opens up that blood vessel that is blocked and a titanium cage is in there to hold the vessel open. he had two that were put in. we don t know if it was two stents to put into one artery or two arteries were blocked. it s typically a procedure that doesn t take very long. an hour or so. patient s awake during this procedure. and, you know, a lot of people

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