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Kelsey back in hospital--cardiac
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Starword
2008-07-28 18:13:55 UTC
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News came in about an hour ago, Kelsey Grammer was admitted to a New York
City Hospital today after feeling faint. Doctors found he had an irregular
heartbeat. He's been admitted for overnight observation:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080728/lf_nm_life/grammar_dc
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Television star Kelsey Grammer is back in hospital with
an irregular heartbeat, two months after suffering a heart attack the actor
has said nearly killed him, a celebrity news program reported on Monday.
The 53-year-old actor, best known from "Cheers" and his sitcom "Frasier,"
has checked into a hospital in New York after feeling faint, "Entertainment
Tonight" said.
"(Grammer) is being treated for an irregular heartbeat, which we've learned
could be a result of medication he was taking for his recent heart attack,"
the program said in a statement.
Grammer's spokesman Stan Rosenfield was not immediately available for
comment.
The program said Grammer had canceled several television appearances on
Monday to promote the political comedy "Swing Vote" that opens August 1. He
will remain in hospital for observation for another day.
Grammer felt chest pains while paddle-boarding with his wife in Hawaii last
month where they have a second home and was taken to hospital where he was
found to have suffered a heart attack. It came three weeks after he learned
the Fox network was canceling his new show, "Back to You," in which he
played a womanizing TV news anchor.
The star gained fame portraying the snooty but lovable psychiatrist Dr.
Frasier Crane for 20 years, first as a supporting player on the NBC comedy
hit "Cheers" and then as the star of his own Emmy-winning spinoff series,
"Frasier."
Bobcat
2008-07-29 12:04:51 UTC
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Post by Starword
News came in about an hour ago, Kelsey Grammer was admitted to a New York
City Hospital today after feeling faint. Doctors found he had an irregular
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080728/lf_nm_life/grammar_dc
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Television star Kelsey Grammer is back in hospital with
an irregular heartbeat, two months after suffering a heart attack the actor
has said nearly killed him, a celebrity news program reported on Monday.
The 53-year-old actor, best known from "Cheers" and his sitcom "Frasier,"
has checked into a hospital in New York after feeling faint, "Entertainment
Tonight" said.
"(Grammer) is being treated for an irregular heartbeat, which we've learned
could be a result of medication he was taking for his recent heart attack,"
the program said in a statement.
Grammer's spokesman Stan Rosenfield was not immediately available for
comment.
The program said Grammer had canceled several television appearances on
Monday to promote the political comedy "Swing Vote" that opens August 1. He
will remain in hospital for observation for another day.
Grammer felt chest pains while paddle-boarding with his wife in Hawaii last
month where they have a second home and was taken to hospital where he was
found to have suffered a heart attack. It came three weeks after he learned
the Fox network was canceling his new show, "Back to You," in which he
played a womanizing TV news anchor.
The star gained fame portraying the snooty but lovable psychiatrist Dr.
Frasier Crane for 20 years, first as a supporting player on the NBC comedy
hit "Cheers" and then as the star of his own Emmy-winning spinoff series,
"Frasier."
Uh-oh. This sounds serious, so soon after the initial attack. I
sincerely hope it's not, and I know you and others here feel the same
Bob
Starword
2008-07-30 05:25:09 UTC
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Post by Starword
News came in about an hour ago, Kelsey Grammer was admitted to a New York
City Hospital today after feeling faint. Doctors found he had an irregular
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080728/lf_nm_life/grammar_dc
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Television star Kelsey Grammer is back in hospital with
an irregular heartbeat, two months after suffering a heart attack the actor
has said nearly killed him, a celebrity news program reported on Monday.
The 53-year-old actor, best known from "Cheers" and his sitcom "Frasier,"
has checked into a hospital in New York after feeling faint,
"Entertainment
Tonight" said.
"(Grammer) is being treated for an irregular heartbeat, which we've learned
could be a result of medication he was taking for his recent heart attack,"
the program said in a statement.
Uh-oh. This sounds serious, so soon after the initial attack. I
sincerely hope it's not, and I know you and others here feel the same
Bob
Hi Bob. I'd like to believe it's a problem that's easily corrected, and
maybe it is. The article states the irregular heartbeat could be the result
of medication he's on, and I guess that's possible. But I know a little
something about cardio-vascular disease (sorry to say) and I do know an
irregular heartbeat following a heart attack (arrhythmia) can result from
damage to the heart muscle occurring during the period when the heart was
getting insufficient oxygen. Sometimes the damaged heart muscle is impaired,
or the valve becomes mishapen and can't close properly, which throws the
heart rhythm off. So that is a lot more serious than a medication
complication. OTOH, it's usually possible to correct the arrhythmia with the
surgical implant of a pacemaker or sometimes a defibrillator. The procedure
is fairly simple these days, and usually can be done in a same-day
procedure.
So there's good reason to hope he'll recover well.
Nat
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manitou
2008-07-31 12:48:13 UTC
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DHP declares KG "tough old coot"...!
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0291649/
Liz Taylor also is reported to have suffered a cardiac event in recent
days.
CPJ
manitou
2008-08-05 19:13:47 UTC
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I glimpsed him in a movie preview last night ("Brideshead Revisited"
starring the former Nanny_G_1)
http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0522652/
CPJ
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