MINNEAPOLIS -- Former President Ger...

MINNEAPOLIS -- Former President Gerald Ford underwent his secondary heart procedure in a week at the Mayo Clinic when s were placed into two of his coronary arteries to increase vital fluid flow, his spokeswoman said Friday.

The angioplasty measure on the 93-year-old Ford was prosperous and he was resting comfortably in his place at the hospital in Rochester, spokeswoman Penny Circle said in a statement.

Monday, doctors at the clinic had fitted Ford with an implantable cardiac pacemaker to regulate his heartbeat.

Mayo Clinic spokesman John Murphy confirmed the proceeding but would not comment further.

"No further releases or updates are anticipated for several days," he said.

SURGERY SAFE FOR somewhat old

About 600000 angioplasties are done each year in the United States alone.

between the walls of an artery in the leg doctors snake a tube to blockages that are clogging utensils and preventing them from supplying enough relations to the heart.

A balloon spreads the vessel and a entangle stent is left behind to support open the artery.

The spokeswoman's description of the manner of proceeding suggests "that a substantial part of the muscle of the heart is not receiving adequate house flow," said Dr. Carl Pepine, a former president of the American literary institution [i]or[/i] seminary of learning of Cardiology.

"The s can be deployed in somewhat advanced in life people very safely, with ends that are generally as favorable as they are in younger people" Pepine said.

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