Ana Paula Marra
Reporter - Agência Brasil

Brasília - The Vice-President of the Republic and Minister of Defense, José Alencar, underwent a heart stint and balloon angioplasty operation, yesterday (18). The news was released in a bulletin by the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital in São Paulo, where Alencar is hospitalized.

According to the bulletin, the procedure was normal, and the Vice-President's state of heath is "stable, and he is doing well." He will remain in the Syrian-Lebanese Hospital, under observation, for approximately 48 hours.

According to the medical bulletin, Alencar checked into the hospital yesterday morning for a routine checkup, under the supervision of Doctors Roberto Kalil and Raul Cutait. Their examinations detected "a coronary ischemia in the lateral wall of his left ventricule."

Translation: David Silberstein