Dick Cheney's office says the former vice president has been released from the hospital Tuesday, 10 days after getting a new heart. The 71-year-old former Wyoming congressman received the organ from an unknown donor on March 24th at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va. Cheney waited nearly two years for the transplant. His lifelong history of heart disease includes five heart attacks, with the first one striking him at age 37 and the most recent one in 2010. That year, Cheney also had surgery to implant a small pump to help keep his weakened and diseased heart beating. The odds of survival are good. More than 70% of heart transplant patients live at least five years, although survival is a bit lower for people over 65.
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