New York City pro-wrestler John Rodriguez has fought the greats like Hulk Hogan and Roddy Piper, but his latest opponent caught him off-guard fighting for his life outside the arena.
Unknown to him, the longtime competitor was suffering from silent ischemia, a lack of adequate and oxygenated blood flowing to the heart. That episode was just one example of the events to follow with his stamina slowly depleting.A silent heart attack with class four congestive heart failure had Rodriguez on the ropes with a heart function at a mere 15%.
"The fact that he was an athlete and had done so much physical work in his life, gave him a bit of an advantage, at least in some part. But he had a history of high blood pressure and history of diabetes. He was an ex-smoker," Dr. Rohit Shahani, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Staten Island University Hospital, said to News 4.
"You stop the heart and you bypass the blockages. You've got blocked pipes, which bring blood to your heart by coronary arteries. We bring new blood supply, fancy plumbing," explained Dr. Shahani.
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