Chile's Pinochet has surgery after heart attack
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is undergoing a "revision" of earlier heart surgery, but is not having a new operation, as had been reported, a spokesman for Pinochet said on Sunday.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair yesterday underwent an operation to repair an irregular heartbeat, hours after he announced his intention to serve a full third term if Labour were re-elected.
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Chile's ex-leader Augusto Pinochet improves somewhat but remains seriously ill after a heart attack.
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SANTIAGO  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet has regained consciousness after suffering a stroke that sent him to the hospital, doctors said, ahead of an appeals court ruling on criminal charges dating from his 17-year rule.
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile, underwent angioplasty following a serious heart attack.
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Chile's former military leader Augusto Pinochet is in a serious condition after a heart attack, hospital sources say.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Three court-appointed doctors  examined Chile's former military dictator Augusto Pinochet on  Thursday, a key step that will decide whether the 88-year-old  general will stand trial for human rights abuses.
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Santiago, Chile -- Augusto Pinochet, 91, the former military dictator of Chile, underwent bypass surgery and placed in the intensive care unit of a military hospital after suffering a heart attack early Sunday morning.
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SANTIAGO  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was hospitalized after suffering a stroke, the Military Hospital of Santiago said in a statement.
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Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was hospitalized on Saturday with a possible stroke, ahead of an expected court ruling on Monday on whether he should be tried in a human rights case.
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Gen. Augusto Pinochet, whose 17-year dictatorship carried out thousands of political killings and widespread torture, was fighting for his life in a Chilean hospital Sunday after suffering a heart attack. But doctors said his condition was improving after an emergency procedure to restore blood flow to his heart.
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hospital, and his doctors say he would have risked a &quot;substantial&quot; heart attack without the operation. an operation, Chief of Cardiology Allan Schwartz of New York-Presbyterian Hospital told a news conference on Monday.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, accused of torture, killings and kidnappings during his 1973-1990 rule, is still seriously ill following a heart attack but is improving, doctors said on Monday.
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SANTIAGO, Chile  - Ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973-1990 and spent his old age fighting human rights, fraud and corruption charges, died on Sunday, a week after suffering a heart attack, a military doctor said.
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Former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet was hospitalized early Sunday after suffering a heart attack and is in serious but stable condition, the Santiago Military Hospital said.
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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is recovering after undergoing surgery in Germany on a key artery in the neck that supplies blood to the brain, his foundation said Wednesday.
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By Fiona Ortiz SANTIAGO, Chile  - Former Chilean dictator AugustoPinochet was in a hospital on Sunday recovering from a minorstroke, a day before court was to rule on a human rights caseagainst him.