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Article: Vice President Cheney Not the Only Beneficiary of Implantable Heart Defibrillator; South Florida Cardiac Patients Confirm Life-Saving Benefits As Clinical Trial Closes.
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- August 9, 2001
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HOLLYWOOD, Fla., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire/ --
"The internal shock to my heart saved my life -- not once, but twice," said Joseph Stewart. Stewart, like Vice President Dick Cheney and tens of thousands of other Americans, relies on an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), which greatly reduces the risk of sudden cardiac death.
Stewart is a patient at Hollywood, Florida-based South Broward Cardiology Consultants, which has been involved in a national study called the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial (SCD-HeFT). The National Institutes of Health and Duke University sponsored the five-year clinical trial, which concluded July 18, ...