Dr. Alberto Zangrillo, personal doctor of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, talks to reporters in front of San Raffaele hospital, as Italian surgeons began a four-hour heart surgery on the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday to replace a defective aortic valve, a hospital statement said, in Milan, Italy June 14, 2016. REUTERS/Flavio Lo Scalzo
MILAN (Reuters) - Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was alert, lucid and cracking jokes less than 24 hours after undergoing open heart surgery at the age of 79, his doctors said on Wednesday.
The centre-right politician and media mogul had an aortic valve replaced on Tuesday after suffering what his doctors said was a life-threatening cardiac disorder last week.
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