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| Written by By Nate Poppino -Argonaut | ||||||
| Tuesday, 11 October 2005 | ||||||
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University of Idaho President Tim White is resting at home following his third heart attack in two years. White awoke Friday morning with chest pain and was rushed to Gritman Medical Center, where it was determined he suffered a heart attack. He was given anti-clotting medicine and sent to Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, where an angioplasty was performed and a stent placed in his right coronary artery. UI spokesman Harold Gibson said White stayed alert throughout the process. During angioplasty, a catheter with a balloon on the tip is inserted into the artery. The balloon is slowly expanded until the blocked artery is open again. A stent is a wire mesh or perforated tube left in the artery to hold it open. White was released from Sacred Heart Sunday morning, having spent Friday in the intensive care unit and Saturday in the “step-down cardiac unit.” He attended a meeting Monday afternoon, but is under physician orders to reduce his work schedule for the week and plans to mostly work from home. “The doctors seem very encouraged,” said Leslee Yaryan, assistant to the president. “We do just want to adhere to his physician’s orders to relax his workload.” White’s heart sustained some tissue damage, but its function was not permanently affected. UI administrators reacted quickly to his absence and are covering for White until he fully recovers. “We had to group and find out his condition and then work on letting the university and broader community know what that condition was,” UI Provost Doug Baker said. “Once it was clear he was going to be OK, then we started planning how it would affect our schedules.” “The overriding concern is that he’s okay, for his health,” Yaryan said. White did not have many activities scheduled over the weekend, but his reduced schedule will affect meetings and events this week. “He was going to attend the game in Reno, so he’s (missed) that,” Gibson said. Yaryan said the incident will prevent White from attending the signing of a revised UI nondiscrimination policy as part of National Coming Out Day Tuesday. Baker will sign the policy in White’s place. “He’s had to be very diligent about what he participates in,” Yaryan said. The attack was White’s third in less than two years. His first heart attack and bypass operation occurred in May 2004 during his last few months as provost of Oregon State University. His second, in December, was minor and he worked from a hospital bed at Gritman.  Add as favorites (25) | Views: 1171
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