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Surviving a heart attack
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Mariss Jansons: 10 facts about the great conductor
5. Surviving a heart attack
In April 1996 in Oslo, Jansons nearly died while conducting the final pages of Puccini's La bohème, after a heart attack. He recuperated in Switzerland. Later, surgeons in Pittsburgh fitted a defibrillator in his chest to give his heart an electric jolt if it fails.
