EVALUATE EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE.
YOU CAN ALSO SURRENDER AN
ANIMAL TO POLK COUNTY ANIMAL
CONTROL FOR FREE.
THE TERMINATOR ARNOLD
SPORTS AND EGGER IS RECOVERING
FROM EMERGENCY OPEN HEART
SURGERY.
THE ACTOR AND FORMULA -- FORM
YOUR -- FORMER CALIFORNIA
GOVERNOR HAD A HEART VALVE
REPLACED.
SURGEONS PERFORM THAT PROCEDURE.
Reporter: IS THE FOURTH
CARDIAC SURGERY FOR THE FORMER
HOST OF THE CELEBRITY
APPRENTICE.
TONIGHT I SPOKE TO A CARDIAC
DOCTOR HERE AT TGH YOU
EXPLAINED HOW AND WHY IT
HAPPENED.
IT'S UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL.
Reporter: 20 YEARS AFTER HAVING
THE VERY SAME HEART VALVE
REPLACED, ARNOLD SOURCE AND
EGGER WENT UNDER THE KNIFE TO
GET A NEW ONE. 10 YEARS LATER
THE VALVE IS NOT DOING WELL.
WHICH IS NORMAL. Reporter:
TGIF HEART SURGEON SHOWED ME
THE LOCATION INSIDE THE RIGHT
VENTRICLE WHERE THE VALVE
OUTLASTED ITS NORMAL 15 YEAR
LIFE AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED.
DOCTORS USUALLY DO IT WITH
WIRES AND SMALL INCISIONS
CALLED A CATHETER VALVE
REPLACEMENT.
IT DIDN'T WORK AND HE HAD TO
GO TO AN EMERGENCY PROCEDURE TO
CHANGE THE VALVE.
Reporter: THAT MEANT OPENING
UP SOURCE AND EGGER'S CHEST,
CONNECTING HIM TO A HEART-LUNG
MACHINE AND PERFORMING A TWO TO
THREE-HOUR PROCEDURE TO REPLACE
THE VALVE.
YOU HAVE TO DO THIS WITHOUT
INJURING THE HEART.
SO JUST BY OPENING THE PATIENT,
THERE ARE RISKS INVOLVED.
Reporter: TGH SEES THESE
OPERATIONS ABOUT ONCE A MONTH.
ARNOLD WILL LIKELY HAVE TO HAVE
THE PROCEDURE AGAIN WHEN THIS
VALVE GOES BAD.
I THINK THE OPERATION THAT WE
DO NOWADAYS IS WAY LESS RISKY
THAN WHAT WE DID 20 YEARS AGO.
I THINK TECHNOLOGY HAS
EVOLVED. Reporter: THE DR.
STATES HE WILL PERFORM THAT
SAME PROCEDURE ON A WOMAN NEXT
WEEK.
SOURCE AND EGGER'S SPOKESWOMAN
SAYS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS HE
SAID WHEN HE GOT OUT OF SURGERY
