Fulcher ‘Incredibly Grateful’ After Successful Heart Surgery
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- Category: Inside Golf
- Published: 2019-03-11
By HELEN ROSS, PGATOUR.COM
Seven weeks ago, Mark Fulcher was in a hospital bed in Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, recovering from surgery to repair the mitral valve in his heart.
Dr. David Adams — the noted cardiothoracic surgeon and a “massive” golf fan, his grateful patient says — had sawed through Fulcher’s sternum and opened up his chest. He was put on a heart-lung machine while the valve, which regulates the flow of blood from the lung to the left ventricle, was repaired.