blogs/vb-edit/vbgivesback-aha-and-susan-lucci. "Listen to your heart and act on ," Lucci told "GMA" in Monday's interview following the latest procedure. EMMY Award-Winning actress and New York Times best-selling author.
She is of Italian (father) and Swedish, German, and French (mother) descent. Back then, two stents were inserted into her arteries to increase blood flow back to the heart. Susan Lucci was born on December 23, 1946, in Scarsdale, New York, to Jeanette (Granquist) and Victor Lucci, a building contractor. Lucci told People in February 2019 that following a few instances where she suffered shortness of breath, she went to the hospital and a CT scan revealed 90% blockage in her heart's main artery and 70% blockage in another branch. The soap opera legend had the same scare in October 2018. Francis Hospital in Roslyn, New York, told "Good Morning America." "But she had symptoms that were certainly concerning to me that something might be wrong." Richard Shlofmitz, chairman of cardiology at St. At the 72 years of her age, she appears like the women in her early 40s with the fewer wrinkles and toned face. She has the standing height of the 5 ft 1 inch and her body measurement is well fitted to her small built. "She wasn't having a heart attack this time and she wasn't unstable," Lucci's doctor, Dr. Susan Lucci is a very beautiful lady with hot body features. Stents can be life-saving during a heart attack but are also a common treatment to restore blood flow when there's a dangerous blockage, as in Lucci's case. The actress was rushed to the hospital where a doctor told her that she had 80% blockage in one of her arteries because of plaque buildup.Ī stent, which is a tiny mesh tube that is inserted into an artery to prop it open and improve blood flow to the heart, was put in to open the blockage. Susan Lucci was born on December 23, 1946, in Scarsdale, New York, to Jeanette (Granquist) and Victor Lucci. Shortness of breath can be a symptom of heart disease in both men and women.