Susan Lucci, known for her long-running role as Erica Kane on ABC's All My Children, revealed she underwent a second emergency heart procedure.During an interview withGood Morning America on Monday, the 75-year-oldsoap opera legendspoke to Amy Robach about her battle with heart disease.'I was having kind of a shortness of breath,' theEmmy-winning actress said of the symptoms that prompted her to get help, like discomfort around her ribcage and her back.
Scary: Susan Lucci, known for her role as Erica Kane on ABC's All My Children, revealed she underwent am emergency heart procedureShe said her next thought was: 'This is crazy.
These are the same kind of symptoms that I had three years ago but it can't be. 'But when I lay down, I started to feel a sharp coming-and-going pain in my jaw,' the mom-of-two noted, before saying her husband,Helmut Huber, told her to call her doctor.Further testing revealed Lucci had 80% blockage in one of her arteries due to plaque buildup, which would require stent placement surgery.
Raising awareness: During an interview with Good Morning America on Monday, the 75-year-old soap opera legend spoke about her battle with heart disease to Amy Robach 'I was having kind of a shortness of breath,' the Emmy-winning actress said of the symptoms that prompted her to get help, like discomfort around her ribcage and her back'She wasn't having a heart attack this time and she wasn't unstable,' Lucci's doctor, Dr.
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