{"id":618385,"date":"2026-09-08T16:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618385\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T16:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T16:54:14","slug":"scott-mctominay-heart-procedure-a-complete-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/618385\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott McTominay heart procedure ‘a complete success’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Napoli have said Scott McTominay’s heart surgery “was a complete success” and expect the Scotland midfielder to resume training this month.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old’s ablation procedure – a minimally invasive operation to correct irregular heart rhythms – took place at Spire Manchester Hospital on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

McTominay was substituted after 56 minutes of Napoli’s 2-1 Serie A defeat by Como on 30 August.<\/p>\n

A mild benign arrhythmia was discovered, prompting the corrective treatment.<\/p>\n

Napoli, who said in statement, external<\/a> that “McTominay will rest for two weeks and then resume training”, had expected the former Manchester United player to return to action after the international break in early October. <\/p>\n

When his heart issue was announced, McTominay posted on Instagram: “See you soon Napoli. I won’t take long.”<\/p>\n

Sebastien Pocognoli’s first four games as Scotland head coach – home and away against Slovenia as well as matches with North Macedonia and Switzerland in the Nations League – are scheduled for the end of September and early October.<\/p>\n

According to the NHS,, external<\/a> an arrhythmia is when the heart beats too quickly or too slowly, or the heartbeat is not steady. <\/p>\n

The British Heart Foundation explains, external<\/a> a cardiac arrhythmia ablation involves using heat or cold energy to create tiny scars in the heart to block faulty signals and restore a typical heartbeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Napoli have said Scott McTominay’s heart surgery “was a complete success” and expect the Scotland midfielder to resume…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-618385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}