Former Vice President Dick Cheney was released from a Northern Virginia hospital Tuesday after undergoing heart replacement surgery, the Associated Press has reported.
Cheney, 71, received the heart from an anonymous donor and underwent the surgery at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church on Mar. 24.
Cheney had survived on a battery-powered device prior to the surgery and has a long history of heart disease that includes five heart attacks. He waited nearly two years for the transplant.
According to the AP, the odds of survival after a heart transplant are roughly 70 percent, although Cheney’s age might lower those odds slightly.
Cheney was vice president to former President George W. Bush from 2001 until 2009.
