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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110106:11:48:00

Vice president dick cheney, there s talk this week he may get a heart transplant. will that happen and what s at stake? it s a decision he has to make with his own cardiologist and his own doctors. we know for the last 30 years, he s been suffering from cardiac disease and he s had five heart attacks and gone through recent pump replacement which is left ventricular assisted device and when you look at the picture, this is a pump that s basically continuously getting the blood out of the left chamber of the heart into the body so there s no pulse anymore. and they wear this around their belt. it s connected to the battery and you can actually live with this for a long time. purpose of this pump is to prepare them for a heart transplant or basically every two to five years replace this. it s a short-term solution. it is. it is. so there are now 3,000 people on the list of transplants for a heart. do we know if the vice president is on the list? i m not sure if he s on the list ....

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