America's tallest man needs heart surgery

The tallest man in the US, Igor Vovkovinskiy, admitted that he needs heart surgery, Daily Mail reported.

Vovkovinskiy, whose height is more than 230 cm, released a video on Wednesday in which he said that he needed surgery on a sick heart, and this problem worries him from birth.

'I'm in the heart failure unit and I found out just a couple of days ago that I need surgery to fix...some kind of a valve issue that I was born with. But I don't know if even such a surgery can be done on someone my size.'

Vovkovinskiy suffers from a pituitary tumor of the brain that produces a hormone, because of which it does not stop growing.