Dick Cheney

Jan 19, 2011 12:37 PM  He is currently age 69  (born 1941).

Was chairman of Halliburton.

(also see enclosed  NYT link  Cheney Considering Heart Transplant.  Jan 17 2011.

grew up in Nebraska and in Wyoming.

Focus here is on his CV disease.

VP under Geo W Bush and was sec of defense undre  G H W Bush  (oversaw Desert Storm in 91).

On June 25, 2010, Cheney was admitted to George Washington University Hospital after reporting discomfort.<a href="#cite_note-133">[134]</a> In early July 2010, Cheney was outfitted with a <a title="Ventricular assist device" href="/wiki/Ventricular_assist_device">left-ventricular assist device</a> (LVAD) at Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute to compensate for increasing congestive heart failure.<a href="#cite_note-134">[135]</a> The device pumps blood continuously through his body.<a href="#cite_note-135">[136]</a><a href="#cite_note-136">[137]</a> He was released from Inova on August 9, 2010,<a href="#cite_note-137">[138]</a> and will have to decide whether to seek a full <a class="mw-redirect" title="Heart transplant" href="/wiki/Heart_transplant">heart transplant</a>.<a href="#cite_note-138">[139]</a>

LVAD  left ventricular assist device implanted in June 2010.

Currently deciding whether to get a heart transplant.

Note:

was a heavy smoker when he was young.

First of five heart attacks at age 37 in 1978.

Had subseq attacks in 1984, 88, 2000, and 2010.

have resulted in moderate contractile dysfunction of his LV.

4 vessel CABG in 1988 and stenting in Nov 2000.

urgent PTCA  in Mar 2001 and

ICD in June 2001.

July 2010 LVAD implanted  (contrifugal)

Mar 24 2012  heart transplant at age 71 (on waiting list for 20 months)

(MD said: not unreasonable for him to live another 10 years)

Dick Cheney

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