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Rams' interim coach Joe Vitt okay after heart procedure

Rams' interim coach Joe Vitt speaks with reporters Monday, hours after having the procedure (UPI photo/Bill Greenblatt)
Rams' interim coach Joe Vitt speaks with reporters Monday, hours after having the procedure (UPI photo/Bill Greenblatt)

By AP/KWMU

St. Louis, MO – Rams interim coach Joe Vitt is doing well after a heart procedure Monday called a cardiac catheterization. He was back to work at Rams Park by lunch time, then held his regular day-after-game news conference with reporters.

Vitt, 51, was appointed interim coach two weeks ago when Rams coach Mike Martz stepped down for the season due to a heart valve problem.

A Rams spokesman had earlier mistakenly described the procedure as angioplasty. Doctors had planned to do that procedure, but decided it was unneeded.

The catheter procedure insolves guiding a long, thin tube into the heart. It can be used to diagnose or treat a problem.

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