Hailey Bieber Remembers Her Heart Procedure 1 Year After Suffering Ministroke, Shares Hospital Pic

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Hailey Bieber is feeling strong, healthy and grateful a year after undergoing an important heart procedure. The Rhode founder took to her Instagram Story on Monday to mark one year since having a hole in her heart closed. «This time last year I had a procedure to close a hole I had in my heart known as a PFO (Patent Foramen Ovale) Following having a transient stroke,» she wrote alongside a photo of herself in the hospital. «So grateful to have found this and have it closed, and so grateful for my amazing doctors.

A year later I'm feeling strong and healthy.»The model shocked fans in March 2022 with news that she had suffered stroke-like symptoms and had been hospitalized.

She later confirmed that she had experienced a blood clot to her brain that was categorized as a Transient Ischemic Attack. Following more testing, doctors later determined the blood clot traveled from her heart to her brain through a patent foramen ovale, a flaplike hole in Hailey's heart that did not close the way it should have after birth.

She underwent a PFO closure to correct it.«It went very smoothly. I'm recovering really well, really fast. I feel great,» she told fans in a YouTube video at the time.