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Jay Lackritz
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Username: Jay_ny
Post Number: 514
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 04:38 am: | 
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Found in this morning's edition of the New York Times. I thought some may be interested.
Cheney File Traces Heart Care Milestones
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D.
Published: April 23, 2012
For a man who has long battled advanced heart disease, Dick Cheney has had a remarkable streak of being in the right place at the right time.
Now 71, the former vice president has survived five heart attacks, the first of them at the age of 37. Even before he received a heart transplant a month ago today, Mr. Cheney had benefited from just about every procedure, technology and class of drug available to people with his condition — atherosclerosis, in which fatty deposits block blood flow in the arteries.
Indeed, Mr. Cheney’s medical history could almost be the history of medical progress against heart disease, the leading cause of death in this country and many others. Most of the advances have come during his lifetime, through taxpayer investment in research financed by the National Institutes of Health and through private investment by industry and entrepreneurs.
Read on....
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/24/health/dick-cheneys-medical-history-traces-milestones-in-heart-care.html
For those without NY Times digital access, you can download the article off my server:
http://www.lackritz.net/NYTimes-Cheney.pdf
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Happy2Bhere
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Username: Happy2bhere
Post Number: 4535
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 09:52 am: |
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Jay, I posted this on another thread but I will also post it here.
This is what my own personal Cardiologist Dr Reynolds Delgado had to say about older folks receiving heart transplants.
In the news . . . March 30, 2012
Cheney's heart transplant sparks age debate
There's been debate over the age of people getting transplants after former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant at 71. But the world's biggest heart transplant center says that's not unusual . . . older people sometimes do better. "They reject less and they tend to have good outcomes," said cardiologist Dr. Reynolds Delgado with the Texas Heart Institute transplant team. Experts say the real issue isn't competition for organs but too few donors.
Ol' Bob
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Jay Lackritz
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Username: Jay_ny
Post Number: 515
Registered: 01-2007
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 12:44 pm: |
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Bob,
Yeah... I read your other post. This news article was about the many different treatments that Cheney had over the years, not that he may have been too old to receive a transplant, but that he was not too old, or about any age debate.
His first heart attack was in his 30's, and with each of his 5 heart attacks, he was in the right place at the right time for different treatments to get him back on his feet. For his transplant, he again was in the right place at the right time, since he got his transplant before it would have been too late.
I posted the story since it is interesting from a historical nature, discussing heart disease and treatment from the time of Eisenhower to the present. It's not about being too old to get transplanted. They did mention a Canadian who received a heart transplant at age 79, and then lived until he was 90.
The article also mentioned that Medicare will pay for a heart transplant of someone in their 70's, but they don't know who did pay for his transplant.
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Happy2Bhere
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Username: Happy2bhere
Post Number: 4536
Registered: 02-2008
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 - 02:31 pm: |
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Jay, I fully understand and thanks for sharing comments with me. We seem to be on the same Channel on our way of thinking.
Ol' Bob
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