Homes Under The Hammer presenter Martin Roberts has shared how he was given 'less than hours to live' by medical professionals when he was rushed to the hospital. The BBC presenter had to undergo emergency surgery to save his life due to a problem with his heart that hadn't been noticed.
Speaking on the ordeal, Martin shared how doctors had to put a tube into the sack around the heart, to draw fluid, reports the Birmingham Mail. The ITV I'm A Celebrity star said: "A year ago, I had a problem with my heart that hadn’t been noticed.
"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.
He said his liver and kidneys were down to '30 percent' their normal capacity. It was then discovered that Martin was suffering with 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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