TV presenter Martin Roberts has revealed he had "less than a few hours to live" and needed an emergency heart operation to save his life.
The BBC Homes Under The Hammer host says doctors had failed to spot a problem with his heart. Martin said: "A year ago, I had a problem with my heart that hadn’t been noticed," he told The Sun.
"The sack around my heart had expanded and was putting pressure on the heart. I had less than a few hours to live. I was rushed into hospital and had an emergency operation where they stabbed a tube into the sack around the heart and drew a litre and a half of fluid.
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"Had I not been in the right place… Three weeks earlier I was on the road in a transit van and if it had happened then, I would be dead." In April 2022, Martin said a series of tests revealed his blood pressure had dropped to half of that of a healthy person, reports BirminghamLive.
He said his liver and kidneys were down to '30%' their normal capacity. It was then discovered that Martin was suffering from an excess of water around his heart that was preventing it from pumping correctly. Speaking last year, the TV star said: "I watched as they drew out syringe after syringe after syringe of this liquid.
"I was awake for this, but I was bit woozy. There was a tube that went in through my chest cavity, down into the sack around my heart."
They then pulled the fluid out and squirted it into "a plastic beaker". "In the end there was about a litre and a half of stuff they took out," Martin added. Martin said doctors fear he has an underlying respiratory condition that caused the problem.
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