[Newspoetry] Meat Loaf Recovering After Heart Surgery

[Mike Lehman]

An actual Newpoetry-esq Headline, brought to you by our friends, the 
Associated Press...

Meat Loaf Recovering After Heart Surgery
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: November 25, 2003

Filed at 11:20 a.m. ET

LONDON (AP) -- Rock star Meat Loaf underwent heart surgery in a London
hospital after being diagnosed with a condition that causes an irregular
heartbeat, his record label said Tuesday.

He had a catheter ablation -- a procedure in which tissue is removed to
restore a normal heartbeat -- on Friday at the Wellington Hospital in St.
John's Wood, London, and left on Saturday, his U.K. record label Mercury 
said.

The 52-year-old star collapsed Nov. 17 as he performed at London's Wembley
Arena and was taken to Northwick Park Hospital to recover from 
exhaustion due
to a prolonged viral infection. Subsequent tests showed he had
Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, a condition which causes an irregular
heartbeat and can lead to dizziness and fainting, his record label said.

A Wellington Hospital spokesman had previously said that the musician -- 
whose
real name is Marvin Lee Aday -- underwent an unspecified procedure there.

Mercury said Meat Loaf was recovering in London and would undergo further
tests later this week, after which more details of his condition and tour
plans would be released.

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On the Net:

Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome,

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier4785


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Britain-Meat-Loaf.html


Not sure if the links are still good, but who cares, you got the meat of 
the story anyway, right? And what do you expect but a heart attack if 
you're 100% meatloaf, anyway?
Mike