The former chief executive of the United Cricket Board of South Africa, Dr Ali Bacher, is recovering well after repeat heart bypass surgery, the Morningside Medi-Clinic said on Tuesday.
Bacher underwent heart surgery on Monday and according to the clinic was ”amazed” at how techniques had changed since his last heart bypass operation 25 years ago.
”I really feel strong and healthy,” Bacher told the Clinic.
”Only one in 30 of our patients have bypasses these days. However, recent research has raised some questions about the long-term durability of stents,” said Bacher’s cardiologist Dr John Benjamin.
”In Dr Bacher’s unusual case, stenting his old bypass graft would have been technically simple, but we chose the long-term proven safety of a modern arterial bypass instead,” said Benjamin.
It was not immediately known when Bacher would be discharged. — Sapa