A 60-year-old man had to go through open heart surgery after a broken wire left in his artery from a procedure about two weeks earlier was found to be “longer than estimated”, Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority disclosed on Saturday.The patient was originally admitted to Grantham Hospital in Wong Chuk Hang in mid-April for percutaneous coronary intervention, a non-surgical procedure to open up arteries of the heart by inserting a stent into the blocked vessel.The insertion was successful but when…
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