Cheney to receive treatment for irregular heartbeat
Cheney is set to undergo a heart procedure Monday afternoon.
WASHINGTON (CNN) - Vice President Dick Cheney will undergo a heart procedure Monday afternoon after doctors discovered an irregular heartbeat, his office announced.
Cheney was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat, when he visited his doctor Monday morning complaining of a lingering cough after a cold. It was then that the arrhythmia was diagnosed, the vice president's office reported.
Doctors described the procedure - intended to shock the heart back into normal rhythm - as routine, and said they expect the vice president to return to his residence Monday night.
The 66-year-old vice president has had a history of heart ailments - including four heart attacks dating back to 1978 - and was briefly hospitalized in January 2006 after suffering shortness of breath.
- CNN White House Correspondent Ed Henry
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I'm sure they had to look long and hard just to find his heart. I didn't know that you can shock something so small.
may be time to take little easy for the most influential vice president ever.
The real news is that Cheney even has a heart! I am surprised that they even found one!
real nice, lorenz
This is more media bias trying to show the softer side of Cheney before the holiday season.
Cheney doesn't have a heart!
My husband just had this procedure done on Friday. It has a very low risk of complications. Even if someone is not a nice person or you don't agree with them, you shouldn't wish them ill. It will come back to you at some point because no one is perfect.
While I don't wish him ill, if anything were to happen to him I'd spit on his grave, then dance in the mud.
I wish him well, but, he is part of the worst administration to EVER be in office at the white house.
Please pull the plug!!!
250 volts should do the trick.
I was JUST wondering where the old man has been. Dick Cheney's actions and decisions directly contributed to the tens of thousands dead Iraqi civilians, not to mention the thousands of American armed forces. History will not be kind to Dick.
Watch for the resignation and appointment of Rudy Guliani as Vice President.
Darth gets a jump start as Bush continues reading "My Pet Quail".Lets hear some good news like "Cheney Impeached"!
"How i wish something will go wrong" Bad karma that. No matter how one feels about Cheney politically (and I'm no fan of his in that regard), one should not wish another ill health. It poisons one's mind and leads to amorality in the culture.
I wonder if he thinks of the many Iraq's murdered when he planned overthrowing a government.
Maybe he will get the friend he shot to apologize for a bad heart too.
Tic, Tic, Hic, ________________
Dick
Could this be prelude to a resignation to avoid unpleasant questions ??
No malice in this just fact. When I have the same symtoms I am told to take an aspirin and relax to see if it gets better. My medical inurance has a 3000 dollar deductable and I am 12 dollars an hour. I work a job and a half to make ends meet. No malice just wondering what is wrong.
Yeah but your doctor didn't find an arrhythmia while using a basic stethoscope. Your deductable is a month's pay, and you can claim that entire deductible back from your federal income tax. If you need major treatment it sounds like you are well covered. If you want better insurance, pay a higher premium like the rest of us and buy fewer television sets and cheaper cars.
Alex: what is the Vice Presidential line of succussion for 1000 please......
Heart? What heart?
I do not agree with Cheney on anything and I believe he has done great damage to our nation but, these comments are disturbing. We are all Americans and we are entitled to disagree. But, to make comment that you wish something would happen to the VP is really awful. And those that make these comments publicly ought to be ashamed of themselves.
We can only hope....
Why there must be some mistake. Mr. Cheney doesn't have a heart.
Oh, how good it must be to be a fat cat politician with that wonderful health insurance they have!
No wonder they could care less about us.
He's off to see the Wizard.
what goes around, comes around, eh, Dick?