Mexican president undergoes cardiac catheterization

22/1/2022 12:09

        Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador underwent cardiac catheterization Friday afternoon at a military hospital, the government announced. Interior Secretary Adan Augusto Lopez Hernandez said in a statement that based on a routine exam, doctors decided it was necessary to perform the procedure. “In this procedure they found the president’s heart and arteries healthy and functioning adequately,” he said. “No other kind of intervention was necessary.” The statement said Lopez Obrador would resume his normal activities Saturday. Earlier Friday, presidential spokesman Jesus Ramirez said the president had gone in for a routine exam. Lopez Obrador had just returned this week after a week of isolation for his second COVID-19 infection in a year. The 68-year-old president suffered a heart attack in 2013 and has high blood pressure.