Good for Cheney!
| March 24, 2012 08:57PM | Registered: 2 years ago
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Cheney's New HeartHe finally got his new heart! He went for over 30 years with a bad heart. Good thing he got it before BO's health care plan went into effect. He's too old, some say.
"Dr. Eric Topol of Scripps Health in La Jolla, Calif. — raised the issue of whether someone so old should have received a new heart."
Others disagreed.
"It is not too old. Age is really not a factor," said Dr. William Zoghbi of Methodist Hospital's DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center in Houston. He is incoming president of the American College of Cardiology, and he spoke from the group's annual conference in Chicago on Saturday.
Zoghbi said Cheney may even fare better than younger people whose immune systems more actively fight new organs, raising concern about rejection.
"I don't see any ethical issues here," Zoghbi said, because a transplant is clearly indicated for someone whose heart is as weak as Cheney's was.
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