July 14, 2010 | 9:20 pm
Former Vice President Dick Cheney announced that he has undergone surgery to install a small pump to help his heart work, as he enters a new phase of what he called “increasing congestive heart failure.”
“The operation went very well, and I am now recuperating,” Cheney, 69, said in a statement. The surgery took place last week at Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute in northern Virginia.
A longtime face of the Republican Party, Cheney has dealt with heart problems much of his adult life, suffering five heart attacks since age 37. He said the latest step, the implanting of a pump called a left ventricular assist device, will allow him to resume an active life.
Dick Cheney has surgery, says he has congestive heart failure | D.C. Now | Los Angeles Times
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