(Bloomberg) — Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador underwent a cardiac catheterization Friday and his heart was found to be healthy and functioning properly, according to a government statement.
The procedure followed a cardiac stress test two weeks ago, the president said in a video on his official Twitter account, in which he confirmed he had left hospital and returned to the National Palace, the country’s seat of government, in Mexico.
AMLO, as the president is known, has checkups every six months due to after a previous heart attack. His catheterization procedure had to be delayed after he contracted Covid-19, he said.
No other intervention was necessary and the process — which involves a small tube being threaded through blood vessels in the heart and aorta to conduct tests — lasted about 30 minutes.
The 68-year-old president suffered a heart attack in 2013. Lopez Obrador contracted Covid a second time earlier this month and returned to his morning press conferences Monday.
(Updates to show president out of hospital in second paragraph.)
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