Presser Has Surgery to Catch Blood Clots
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LAKEWOOD, Ohio — Teamsters President Jackie Presser, stricken with brain cancer and hospitalized with a lung clot, had a clot-catching screen implanted in a vein below his kidneys, a hospital spokesman said Friday.
Presser’s vital signs were good after the surgery Thursday, Lakewood Hospital spokesman David Hopcraf said.
The 61-year-old labor leader was hospitalized just hours after the government filed a lawsuit Tuesday in New York to break the Mafia’s alleged domination of the 1.6-million-member Teamsters.
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