Advances in heart care mean you can easily get back to life.
When Seymour Zate had a heart attack 25 years ago, his doctors had to perform open-heart surgery—requiring an incision that extended from just below his neck to his stomach.
Six years ago, when another blockage was discovered, doctors made a small incision, less than an inch long, to insert a stent and relieve the blockage. For Zate, now 75, the two experiences could not have been more different.