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Annual Checkup Comes With Good News For Vice President

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 13, 2008

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney got good news Saturday from doctors who said his heart was beating normally for a 67-year-old man who has had four heart attacks.

"The vice president's cardiac status remains stable," Cheney press secretary Megan Mitchell said after the nearly two-hour annual checkup.

Doctors at George Washington University Hospital gave Cheney a physical exam and an electrocardiogram, which is a test that detects and records the electrical activity of the heart, Mitchell said.

Last year's checkup was not as good for the vice president, who has had quadruple bypass surgery and two artery-clearing angioplasties.

At that exam on June 8, 2007, doctors found no new blockages in his heart from the year before, but said he needed a new battery for a special pacemaker he has in his chest. The vice president had surgery the following month to replace the implanted device that monitors his heartbeat.

After his exam, Cheney returned to the vice president's residence at the Naval Observatory and resumed his normal schedule.

The Associated Press

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