Former President Shimon Peres remains hospitalized at Tel Hashomer Medical Center after being rushed back Sunday night (Jan. 24) in response to another round of chest pains.
Paramedics dispatched to his home Sunday night found he again was experiencing cardiac arrhythmia.
Dr. Rafi Walden, his personal physician and son-in-law, told Galei Tzahal Army Radio the 92-year-old elder statesman’s heart rate has returned to normal. But it’s not clear when he will be released.
The incident was an echo of a similar experience that took place on January 14, when Peres was taken to the same hospital with chest pains.
During that visit doctors performed an angiogram and discovered a narrowed artery had caused the elder statesman to suffer a mild heart attack.
Within hours Peres underwent cardiac catheterization and then remained for further tests and observation for the next five days.