Arnold Schwarzenegger has had a pacemaker fitted.
The 76-year-old actor, who has already had three valve replacement surgeries, had the latest op last week but is recovering well. Speaking on his Arnold’s Pump Club podcast, the Terminator star revealed: “I had surgery to become a little bit more of a machine: I got a pacemaker…
“I want you to know I’m doing great! I had my surgery on Monday, and by Friday I was already at a big environmental event with my friend and fellow fitness crusader Jane Fonda… by the way, when we talk about exercise being the only magic pill to slow down aging, look at Jane. She’s ten years older than me, turning 87 this year!”
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He continued: “They advised me that it was time to go through with this because some scar tissue from my previous surgery had made my heartbeat irregular. It had been like that for a few years, so I stayed in touch with my medical team and visited in person at least once a year to get a full check-up and see how my heart was doing.”
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It comes after the Austrian-American action icon revealed how he nearly died when a routine medical procedure went drastically wrong. The star shared a candid account of a medical mishap that unfolded during his most recent open heart surgery, which occurred just before production was set to commence on the sixth instalment of the Terminator franchise.
Speaking on the same podcast, Arnie explained that he was originally scheduled to go for a minimally invasive procedure involving doctors accessing his heart through the groin to replace a valve. However, it turned into a major operation due to an unexpected complication.
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He recalled: “I mean, I woke up all of a sudden and the doctors were standing in front of me and saying, ‘I’m so sorry, but unlike what we planned…we made a mistake and poked through the heart wall and…you had internal bleeding and we had to open [you] up very quickly to save your life’.”
The former professional bodybuilder continued to explain his traumatic experience in a video clip uploaded to the podcast’s YouTube channel: “I was in the middle of a disaster, so now it’s about, ‘How do I get out of it?’ “You have to shift gears.”
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Arnold’s medical history also includes an aortic valve replacement, which took place in Cleveland, Ohio in 2020, which followed up his new pulmonary valve that was inserted in April 2018 in Los Angeles.
In 1997, meanwhile, he underwent elective heart surgery for the first time, which saw the replacement of his defective, congenital aortic heart valve.
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