Emergency Heart Surgery for Top Bankster Jamie Dimon

Jamie Dimon 

JPMorgan has issued a statement saying that its CEO Jamie Dimon is recuperating after having emergency heart surgery to repair an acute aortic dissection.

In a memo to employees and shareholders Co-presidents Daniel Pinto and Gordon Smith said Dimon underwent successful emergency heart surgery and was alert and doing well:

We want to let you know that Jamie experienced an acute aortic dissection this morning. He underwent successful emergency heart surgery to repair the dissection. The good news is that it was caught early and the surgery was successful. He is awake, alert and recovering well.

CNBC’s Wilfred Frost reported Dimon woke up with chest pains Thursday morning and went to the hospital.

An aortic dissection occurs when the inner layer of the large blood vessel branching off the heart tears, according to the Mayo Clinic, which says the condition can be fatal.

-RW