Pat Robertson talks about Cheney's heart and transplant

[lovuian]

My friend heard Pat talk about Cheney's heart on a talk show evidentally Pat knows alot about Cheney's heart and is asking why he can't get a heart transplant

heres the answer

http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/281265.aspx?option=print
In discussions last week with Middle Eastern leaders, the vice president appeared fit. But hours before, his physicians found an atrial fibrillation, an irregular heartbeat. That can cause a stroke.

The problem lead quickly to a medical procedure called electric shock that resulted in a normal heart rhythm.

This was the latest in multiple procedures Cheney has faced in the last thirty years.

So is Cheney one step away from heart failure and thus a heart transplant?
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The last time it was announced, Cheney's heart was putting out 40 percent. To be eligible for a transplant, you have to be below 20 percent.
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My friend heard Pat talk about that Cheney's heart was puting out 35% on his talk show Pat must be worried...and asking why he can't get a heart transplant this is why but its getting closer

[Happyhippychick]

1. I thought Cheney didn't qualify for a heart transplant because

he doesn't actually have a human heart.

[CreekDog]

13. It's not a carburator

You don't need to have a used one to exchange in order to buy the new one.

[BuyingThyme]

2. There's a joke in there somewhere about Chimps and heart transplants.

I don't feel like doing the legwork.

[chaplainM]

3. Insert "Miracle Protein Shake®" joke here

But I'm as lazy as BuyingThyme, so someone else has to write it.

[Demeter]

4. A Heart Transplant for Cheney Would Be a Crime Against Humanity AND Nature

and a good target for a budget cut.

[lovuian]

5. ROFL if you look at the video it makes Cheney look

like he is the fittest man in the US
even better than a young teenager

News media truly is getting way crazy

[TwilightGardener]

6. An ejection fraction of 40% is indicative of some congestive heart failure, IMO, but

keep in mind that an EF of 60-70% is considered normal--he probably has some activity intolerance, and he may get worse or develop more arrhythmias (due to the stretching of myocardial tissue from a big, floppy heart), but I don't know that he's on his last legs, especially since cardiac output can be improved with drugs.

[lovuian]

7. ejection fraction thats what Pat talked about Cheney is at 35%

thats getting pretty bad and yet he is our Vice President

He isn't fit for the job

[TwilightGardener]

8. Well, if he was a NORMAL VP, and attended funerals and broke ties

in the Senate, he could shuffle through his last few months OK. Since he's the real power behind the throne, it is a problem.

[Peregrine Took]

9. I guess it depends on the person as I know someone who is in top shape

and is a daily runner who has an EF in the 30's and has had for over 10 years. He's very slim and has great energy and a very healthy, lowfat diet. I think Cheney is fat and his heart has to work harder to lug him around.

[lovuian]

10. Does he have a defibrillator in his chest too???

Pats pushing for a heart transplant for him
He was pretty short on Sharon when he had his stroke

that was the devil's work there

[Eurobabe]

15. Carrying around all that evilness is HARD WORK!!

[wuushew]

11. I have yet to find an internet death clock that accepts that he is still alive

Overweight former smoker with four heart attacks must mean that he receives the best medical care available(on our time) in the world.

[stillcool]

12. it's against the

Hippocratic oath ...The first do no wrong part.

[Virginia Dare]

14. Maybe Dr. Frist can perform it via live videofeed..

they'll probably harvest it from some poor guy at GITMO. If there is anybody on this earth right now who is a bigger waste of skin than Dick Cheney, I can't think of one.

[Eurobabe]

16. Didn't you hear? Osama and Darth swapped kidneys and hearts

awhile back. The OBL heart gave Darth the insight about how to truly fuck America once and for all.

As for Darth's kidneys? Joke was on Osama, he's dead.