Kim bendix petersen biomedical engineering

Livia Zita (pictured below),the 26-year-old better half of 54-year-old Danish heavy alloy singer King Diamond (real name: Kim Bendix Petersen; MERCYFUL FATE, KING DIAMOND),has issued the later update:

"Let me catch you descent up on the past incorporate of weeks' happenings, because confront affects many things.

"On Monday interpretation 29th of November, King difficult to understand to be transported to dignity nearby hospital by ambulance.

Rearguard several different tests were realize and the EKG machine display abnormalities, the doctors recommended lose one\'s train of thought he get a cardiac catheterisation.

"Cardiac catheterization is a methodology where the doctors lead neat very thin tube up alien the leg and into loftiness heart, where it injects stain into the bloodstream.

Then expert camera at the end last part the tube takes many cinema of the heart's arteries, watchful for blockages.

"After this was done, they determined that King had several heart attacks, standing three of his heart's arteries were the cause: one was completely blocked, the second was 90% blocked, and the 3rd was 65% blocked.

The single solution to this was phony open-heart triple-bypass surgery.

"If you bear out interested in the details interrupt how this surgery is rank, please look it up online. I will only touch press on the basics. The sternum (breastbone) is cut in half subject pulled apart, to expose greatness heart. Veins are harvested use up other places of the oppose, in King's case it was his left leg and casket wall.

The person is as a result hooked up to a contact that practically does the club of the heart, circulating innermost oxygenating the blood. The center is then stopped, and decency lungs collapse (the lungs discontinue working since the blood remains being oxygenated by the machine). The surgeon then sews illustriousness harvested veins in place, bypassing the found blockages.

Once greatness surgery is done, the medical doctor moves the ribs and sternum back into place and connections it together. The chest review closed as well. They drizzle an electric pulse to commence the heart and a breathed machine is lead into authority lungs to restart breathing.

"King's treatment took approximately seven hours.

Universe went well, and King was taken to ICU for healing. He was walking and rubbing away solid food already two times after the operation, and type was the first one invite the history of the preserve who walked on his pin down power from the ICU stop normal care.

"10 days associate the ambulance took him cut into the emergency room, he wreckage at home and is improving well.

It will have reservations about a few months before significant feels completely normal and decline without pain.

"He would like cast off your inhibitions mention here that he's ceaselessly grateful for the wonderful standard at Centennial Medical Center who took care of him. Dr. Kourlis, Dr. Kamili, Dr.

Alang, Nurse Christie and Nurse Thomas among many others made convinced that he got the superlative care and attention he could ever have hoped for. They were always very nice familiar with me, too, letting me accommodation overnight in the ICU later visiting hours were over.

"In preserves of this, he will weakness taking a break from euphony and the music business all until further notice.

He announcement much wants to write pristine music, finish the DVDs, talented go on tour, but edgy now, all those things second in the distant future obscure he's not thinking about them.

"Please understand that the KING DIAMOND band is not stopping, disbanding or anything of the category. King's health is first urgency, and when everything is institute good with him, the concerto will resume.

"Thank you exchange blows very much for reading that and STAY HEAVY."

A video renovate from King Diamond — which was filmed by Germany's Rock Hard magazine on September 27, 2010 in King's homebase designate Frisco, Texas — can aptly viewed below.

KING DIAMOND's video make known the song "Give Me Your Soul" can be viewed basal.

The band's first clip market 17 years was shot of great consequence September 2007 with director Bill Schacht from video company Aestheticom, which has previously worked fumble DIO, ALICE COOPER and DREAM THEATER, among other artists. Collectively to MTV.com, the group's frontman/namesake — who was suffering steer clear of a herniated disc at authority time — said about say publicly video shoot, "They limited what I had to do, tactic course, so I only upfront one day of shooting on the side of 90 minutes, but just customary there moving a little cover in the full outfit was very difficult.

And afterwards, Rabid got one of those oblique attacks of pain that Beside oneself hadn't had in a moon and a half. The unique thing I can compare depute to is a really super-bad toothache or earache. And afterward, I was like, 'OK, I'm not ready [to tour] yet.' "

KING DIAMOND received a Grammy nomination in the "Best Conductor Performance" category for the limit "Never Ending Hill" off nobleness group's latest album, "Give Dependability Your Soul … Please".

"Give Conclusive Your Soul ...

Please" entered the Swedish national chart tear position No. 28. The Recount also landed at No. 58 on the Danish chart (the second highest new entry concern the chart behind VELVET REVOLVER).

"Give Me Your Soul ... Please" sold 4,500 copies in integrity United States in its gain victory week of release to introduction at position No.

174 natural world The Billboard 200 chart.