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Mollie Quirk

Homes Under The Hammer's Martin Roberts discharged from hospital after emergency surgery

Homes Under The Hammer's Martin Roberts has been discharged from hospital just one week after undergoing emergency surgery.

Last week Martin, 58, was rushed to hospital after suffering from chest pains and had just "hours to live".

Martin required life-saving surgery in order to rectify the fluid that was discovered around his heart.

On Thursday (April 28) the popular TV host, who heads up the much-loved Homes Under The Hammer programme, uploaded a short video from the Royal United Hospital in Bath.

Sharing an update with his fans and followers, Martin's good news has overjoyed so many.

Speaking to his fans through his phone's camera he said: "They [the hospital] did an MRI scan on my heart this morning and found that I did have a few essential residual problems that they’re going to check over the next few months to check they don’t get any worse, hopefully, they get only better.

Martin has been discharged from hospital one week after being admitted with chest pains (martinrobertstv/Instagram)

"The breathing side of things I’m just going to carry on with it and then have more follow-up meetings with the respiratory team.

"For now, they’ve decided that they’ve done what they can and I’m better placed at home now."

When uploading the short clip to his social media channels, he captioned it: "Bit of an update.

"Thank you to you the wonderful NHS - especially the teams in A & E and the Cardiac Care Unit at the RUH in Bath, who saved my life.

"And thank you to YOU for all your incredible messages of love and support. They have meant the world to me."

The star was happy to be going home (martinrobertstv/Instagram)

Last week, while recovering in hospital, Martin spoke about the moment he watched doctors plunge an "eight inch needle" into his chest in a race to save his life.

"It's the nearest thing to not being here that has ever happened to me," said Martin while he was in hospital recovering from the health scare.

He said that he started to feel poorly over the Easter Bank Holiday, but put his symptoms down to long Covid or asthma.

By the Wednesday after the Easter Bank Holiday, he thought he was suffering from a heart attack and was taken to hospital by his wife Kirsty.

After a slew of urgent tests, doctors soon discovered that the TV star was suffering from having excess water around his heart.

The fluid was preventing his heart from pumping correctly.

Martin noticed that he wasn't feeling right over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend (Instagram)

Speaking in interview with OK! Martin said: "In my case, it turns to something called a cardiac tamponade, which is where it fills rapidly and starts strangling the heart. And that's... that's the killer. It can result in death."

Opening up about the terrifying moment a doctor plunged an eight inch syringe into his chest to drain the fluid, Martin recalled: "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."

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