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Former US vice president Dick Cheney receives heart transplant

The former vice president of the United States has had a long history of heart problems and had been on the transplant list for 20 months.

FORMER US VICE president Dick Cheney has had a heart transplant, his office has confirmed.

The 71-year-old, who has a long history of heart problems, received the transplant on Saturday and is now recovering in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Virginia.

Cheney had been on the transplant list for 20 months. He has not been told the identity of the donor.

“Although the former vice president and his family do not know the identity of the donor, they will be forever grateful for this livesaving gift,” the statement said.

Cheney spent almost two years on the waiting list for a new heart. The average waiting time for a new organ is six months to a year, the New York Times reports.

Over 3,100 Americans are currently on the waiting list for a heart transplant with just over 2,300 transplants carried out in 2011, according to the Associated Press.

The vice president during the George W Bush administration has suffered five heart attacks, the first when he was just 37 years old.

Last year he published a book “In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir” about his time in politics over the past forty years.

- Additional reporting by the Associated Press

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    May 19th 2018, 9:22 AM

    The old back door exit what a way to go !

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    May 19th 2018, 10:00 AM

    Should send it to may as reminder that he won’t forget the starvation of our people

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    May 19th 2018, 10:13 AM

    @marty johnbann: yea because she caused it

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    May 19th 2018, 10:26 AM

    @marty johnbann: well said marty

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    May 19th 2018, 7:24 PM

    What potato famine? Do you mean the British Genocide of the Irish people? This is established fact and calling the famine is pure ignorance

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    May 19th 2018, 9:26 PM

    @Rúairí O’ Sullivan:
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    May 19th 2018, 1:05 PM

    Should it not read 19th century? Given the famine occurred in the 19th century??

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    May 19th 2018, 4:27 PM

    @Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: Don’t be so pedantic.

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    May 19th 2018, 4:32 PM

    @Bruce van der Gutschmitzer: it could have been made in the 18th.

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    May 19th 2018, 1:43 PM

    They should have used it todayfpr the wedding…

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    May 19th 2018, 11:44 AM

    I find this to be offensive. We should bury this dark period of our history forever

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    May 19th 2018, 11:55 AM

    @Philip Murphy: Burying our history, that would be an affront to all who died!

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    May 19th 2018, 11:13 PM

    ‘Bring out your dead’ was the cry.
    Where are they from – Clonakilty (God Help Us)

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