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1st LD Writethru: Latvian president stable after heart surgery

Xinhua, January 20, 2016 Adjust font size:

Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis is in a stable condition after undergoing heart surgery at the Cardiology Center of Pauls Stradins Hospital in Riga on Wednesday, the hospital's representatives said.

Medics have promised to give more detailed information about the president's health on Thursday, the news service of Latvian public television said.

Representatives of Pauls Stradins Hospital described the surgery as successful, adding that the president is currently in a stable post-operation state which is adequate to the character of the illness and the seriousness of the operation.

During the surgery, the president's heart valve, which was affected by septic infection, was replaced with a prosthetic valve.

Vejonis was taken to Riga Eastern Clinical University Hospital on Monday morning with what his spokesman Gusts Kikusts described as a virus infection.

Upon assessing the president's health condition, doctors decided on Tuesday to transfer Vejonis from Riga Eastern Clinical University Hospital to Pauls Stradins Hospital where he underwent additional examination.

On Wednesday, a team of cardiologists and cardiac surgeons came to a conclusion that the president needed heart surgery to eliminate the source of the infection. Endit