Doctor: Coretta Scott King Had Big Stroke

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Doctor: Coretta Scott King Had Big Stroke

By DANIEL YEE, Associated Press Writer
36 minutes ago


ATLANTA - Coretta Scott King suffered a minor heart attack and a major stroke that impaired her ability to speak and affected her right side, but she is "completely aware," a doctor said Thursday.


King's daughter said the family expected a full recovery.

Dr. Charles Wickliffe, a cardiologist at Piedmont Hospital, where the 78-year-old widow of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been hospitalized for two days, said a blood clot had moved from King's heart and lodged in an artery in the left side of her brain.

"This same clot caused a small heart attack and a big stroke," said Wickliffe, addressing reporters along with King's four children.

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