Dec. 10, 2002
WACO, Texas -
Baylor athletic director Tom Stanton will be admitted to the Providence Health Center Wednesday, to undergo a minor corrective procedure Thursday.
Stanton will receive an echogram on Wednesday and is scheduled to undergo an ablation procedure to remove heart tissue Thursday. The procedure was scheduled last month when Stanton was diagnosed with an atrial flutter. He was originally admitted to Providence Nov. 4.
It is expected that Stanton could return home by the end of the week. Due to this previously schedule procedure; Stanton will not be in attendance at Wednesday's press conference to announce Baylor's new head football coach.
The ablation procedure destroys tissue to prevent fast, erratic pulses in the heart. An atrial flutter is a condition in which the heart beats 250 to 350 times per minute. This causes rapid, regular or irregular heart rhythms.
Stanton, 51, was named Baylor's athletic director in February 1996 and has overseen large-scale capital upgrades and dramatic improvements in overall athletic successes. Baylor was ranked 125th nationally in the Sears Directors' Cup rankings his first season, but has finished in the top 55 each of the last four seasons, including a 40th-place ranking in 2001-02.
