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Larry Kingis on the mend after experiencing a medical scare last week, PEOPLE can confirm.
“He is okay right now,” a source says.
A second source tells PEOPLE King is “doing well” and suffered an angina, which mimics a heart attack.
“He had an episode with his heart over the weekend and he had an artery opened up and some stents put in,” says the source. “But he’s remarkably strong. His doctors even say they don’t know how he bounces back from everything so quickly.”
According to the source, King was scheduled to go in for an angiogram last Thursday. When the pain became too strong, he went to the hospital early.
“If there’s a blockage or collapsed artery, they have a surgery room next door where they do an angioplasty, which is what happened,” says the source.
The 85-year-old television legend was placed in the cardiac intensive care unit and is expected to be released Monday.
TMZwas the first to report the news.
“Larry is in good spirits and thanks everyone for their concern,” continues the statement. “He’s expected to be back to work on his shows,Larry King NowandPoliticKING with Larry Kingsoon.”
King previously suffered a heart attack in 1987.
And in 2017, King revealed he had beendiagnosed with stage 1 lung cancerafter getting an X-ray during a routine annual physical exam.
“I didn’t have any pain, but when they took a chest x-ray the doctor said, ‘There’s a little cloud here…,’ ”he previously told PEOPLE.
A CAT scan and PET scan followed, and his cancer diagnosis was confirmed.
King underwent surgery to have the malignant mass removed.
“They went in through my ribs with a tiny camera and snipped it out,” he said. “I only had a little pain and some shortness of breath but once my speech is back full — and that took about a week — I went right back to work.”
King was also diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1999.
source: people.com
