Dick Cheney Heart Transplant: Does Cheney have a heartbeat?

Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, Cheney grew up there and later in Casper, Wyoming. He attended Yale University before earning a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in political science from the University of Wyoming.

Dick Cheney is an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th vice president of the United States from 2001 to 2009 under president George W. Bush.

Dick Cheney Heart Transplant

Cheney had severe congestive heart failure and had suffered five heart attacks over the past 25 years. He’s had countless procedures to keep him going – bypasses, artery-opening angioplasty, pacemakers, and surgery on his legs. Yet he must have had a healthy liver and kidneys to qualify for a new heart, doctors said.

Cheney received the new heart Saturday, January 4, 2012, at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., the same place where he received an implanted heart pump that has kept him alive since July 2010.

Does Cheney have a heartbeat?

Cheney underwent surgery to have a mechanical pump implanted in his chest which effectively took over the duties of his failing heart. Known as a ventricular assist device, the pump pushes blood continuously through his circulatory system instead of mimicking the heart’s pulsations. Thus it leaves Cheney with no heartbeat.