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If it got turned off, they would hook me up to a little thing-amajiggy. >> what else are we going to do now? >> wait until a heart comes, right? >> let's take a look, lie back. >> now the wait for a heart is soon an added urgency. how long could the heart pump hold out. because it was artificial it threw off little blood clots, which kept everyone watching, tense on edge. >> dr. david rosenthal is a cardiologist on the team treating the siblings. >> her lungs are over here, and this is her heart. her heart is much larger than it should be. >> how big should it be? >> we would expect it to fit ...

>> so women may not have the same symptoms all the time as men. i mean, the risk factors are generally the same, though. so you could have high cholesterol, if you have high blood pressure, if you have a family history of early heart disease, or an early heart attack, that puts you at risk. diabetes and obesity can also put you at risk. i mean, in her case, you know, part of the issue, we don't know what necessarily precipitated all of this, but on the plane, she actually had another problem as well where she needed cpr. so the purpose of the cpr at that time is to help the heart pump because ...

An a trial fib uulation. and the heart is sort of sitting there and the blood inside pools and clots and what happens when blood is not moving. >> they are finding that that contributes to strokes. >> if a clot forms in the the heart when the heart pump its out tis sends that clot to the vein. and it can get lodged and stop the oxygen from getting there. >> so the suggestion that people with strokes with not an obvious cause should get longer monitoring of the heart. they monitor their heart for 24 hours to so if there is an irregular rhythm and problem with the electricity. if they don't find...

The latest scientific discoveries. many heart attack victims from the 1970s are dead. >> uh-huh. >> how come you're alive? >> combination of things. obviously, a donor, tremendous advances in medical technology, prayers of a lot of people all over the country, my family, and i was, as my doctor explained it, i had that first heart attack in '78. most of the things that saved my life hadn't even been invented yet. it's as though you get up in the morning to go to work, you're late, you jump in the car and head for the office, and every stoplight was red, but he said, cheney, when you got to the...