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U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney got good health news Saturday when he was pronounced in stable cardiac health after a routine annual physical examination.
Tests at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C., showed that Cheney's cardiac pacemaker was working properly and had not been activated by an irregular heartbeat and that stent-grafts implanted in arteries behind his knees last year were "wide open," according to his spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride.
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Cheney, 65, has had four heart attacks, quadruple heart bypass surgery and two angioplasties, procedures to clear blockages in the arteries. And last year he underwent surgery to repair aneurysms in arteries behind his knees, The New York Times reported.
The physical on Saturday consisted of several tests, including an electrocardiogram, follow-up imaging of the repaired aneurysms and a check of Cheney's implantable cardioverter defibrillator, also known as a pacemaker, that he has had since 2001. A stress test on a treadmill is scheduled for the fall, McBride said.
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