Mr. Schroeder, 52, a retired federal worker, got his mechanical heart in 1984.
The first successful use of a mechanical heart in a human was performed by Michael E. DeBakey in 1966.
His back story, the basis for an episode, involves a dark doctor who makes him a robot by implanting a mechanical heart in him.
Within 10 years, people will begin to electively replace their biological heart with a mechanical heart in order to stave off a possible heart attack out of the blue.
But he was still in real danger, because clots would form in the mechanical heart if it quit, and cause a stroke if they escaped into his bloodstream.
The fund-raiser for Ms. Cino, held at the Alexandria, Va., home of Mr. Cheney's former aide Mary Matalin, was his first major foray into partisan Washington political theater since receiving a mechanical heart pump in July that has, most doctors say, saved Mr. Cheney's life by taking on the task of helping to push blood through his arteries.
The multivariate adjusted odds ratio was calculated in reference to the mechanical heart valve in the device category, device-related AE in the event category, company A in MAH, and no health damage in patient outcome.
The multivariate adjusted odds ratio was calculated with reference to the mechanical heart valve in the device category, device-related AE in the event category, company A in MAH, and no health damage in patient outcome.
The Mecr transgenic animals have impaired mechanical heart function in vivo as documented by (i) echocardiography and (ii) decreased physical performance in exercise endurance tests.
He thought of the clever little hand pump he had been given to keep his mechanical heart going in an emergency.
On Tuesday, a expert in mechanical heart devices from that institute, Dr. O. H. Frazier, was attending the same Washington meeting as Dr. Dowling.
