31.   He checked into the hospital, where Dr. Connie Hutton performed emergency surgery to clear his clogged arteries.

32.   He inserts a balloon catheter, like those used in angioplasty to open clogged arteries, through a quarter-inch incision under the ligament of the carpal tunnel.

33.   He suffered a mild heart attack in November, after which doctors implanted a metal scaffolding, or stent, to open a clogged artery.

34.   He underwent the balloon procedure and received two stents to keep the clogged arteries open.

35.   His clogged arteries were opened with balloon angioplasty, but the procedure had to be repeated a few months later.

36.   Hundreds of thousands of patients each year have procedures to open clogged arteries by scraping them clean with a sharp blade or squashing plaque with tiny balloons.

37.   If Santa is immune to clogged arteries and hypertension, he also seems impervious to the many environmental woes plaguing the Earth these days.

38.   In March, he was again treated, this time with angioplasty, to clear a clogged artery.

39.   In March, he underwent angioplasty to clear a clogged artery.

40.   In these studies, doctors are injecting TPA or other clot-busting drugs directly into the clogged artery, rather than through an intravenous line.