Italy's Berlusconi comes through open-heart surgery

June 14, 2016 18:51

Italy's controversial former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi underwent cardiac surgery today after a heart attack his doctor said could have killed the 79-year-old tycoon.

First indications were that the four-hour open-heart operation to replace his aortic vale at the San Raffaele hospital in Milan had been successful.

"The operation was finished a little after midday and there were no complications in the operating theatre," a hospital statement said, adding that Berlusconi had been transferred to an intensive care unit.

"Everything is okay guys, now I can speak more calmly," Gianni Letta, a close political ally of the billionaire leader of Forza Italia, told the AGI news agency.

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