A few months after having had two toes amputated, Mario Lirette is back in the hospital. The radio host is on standby for bypass surgery. Despite the situation, “his morale is good,” according to his son Philo Lirette.
Mario Lirette has been hospitalized at Cité-de-la-Santé in Laval since Tuesday. According to Featured Echoes, the host felt a pain in his heart last week. It was after a coronary angiography that he was found to have two blocked arteries.
“We would move him to the CHUM soon,” Philo Lirette told the Journal. He is under observation with the administration of nitroglycerin to ensure that the arteries are free. There is one that is 90% plugged. “
Despite the situation, Mario Lirette would have “a concrete morale”. “We’ve been aware for a while that he has a fragile heart. But now I think he just had a wake-up call », Mentions his son.
According to Featured Echoes, Mario Lirette had already had four stents (coronary balloons) in blocked arteries, in 2011.
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