Sanders’s Doctors Say He’s Fit for Presidency After Heart Attack
- Vermont senator had ‘uneventful recovery’ from heart attack
- Campaign releases details of severity of Las Vegas episode
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Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the first time on Monday disclosed information about the severity of the heart attack he suffered in October, but also released letters from doctors describing him as in good health and fit to lead the country.
The Vermont senator’s heart attack was caused by a blockage in the midportion of his left anterior descending coronary artery, Congress’s attending physician, Brian Monahan, said in one of the letters. But since then, his “heart muscle strength has improved” and Sanders doesn’t have symptoms of congestive heart failure, a life-threatening condition, Monahan wrote.