( CNN ) -- Minutes after Bill Clinton 's doctor divulged that the former president underwent a stenting procedure to restore blood flow through a coronary artery , CNN 's Larry King made a similar announcement . `` A month ago , maybe five weeks ago , I had the same procedure at Cedar-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles that Bill Clinton had today , '' the 76-year-old talk show host told viewers of his program , `` Larry King Live . '' King noted that he suffered a heart attack in February 1987 and underwent a quintuple bypass five months later . He described his experience with heart disease in his 1989 book , `` Mr. King , You 're Having a Heart Attack . '' Recently , he said Thursday , he began feeling symptoms that turned out to have been related to his heart . `` I felt some strange feelings in my shoulder , where I had the original heart attack , '' said King . He said he went to the hospital and underwent the procedure a few days later . Stents are tiny balloons that are threaded into a patient 's heart vessels where they are inflated , pushing plaque against the vessel wall and increasing blood flow . `` I did it on a Monday morning , was out on Tuesday and back here on 'Larry King Live ' on Tuesday night , '' King said . `` So I can report to the waiting public that I never felt better . They got it open , they put the stents in . I share a bond with the former president and I feel very good . I only did n't make it public because I just like to keep things private . But I feel terrific , '' he said .
King said he suffered a heart attack in 1987 and underwent a quintuple bypass months later . He was hospitalized for two weeks after the incident but returned to work at his job as an executive assistant on Capitol Hill until last year. Since the procedure says King , `` I can report to the waiting public that I never felt better ''