Doctors rule out bypass for ailing Pinochet

Doctors tonight ruled out bypass surgery on Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet, who is fighting for his life at a military hospital after suffering a major heart attack.

Dr Juan Ignacio Vergara, a member of the medical team treating the 91-year-old, said bypass surgery was ruled out after an angioplasty performed in the morning to clear a heart artery obstruction “allowed improvement in his condition”.