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Cheney to have arthritic knees examined Saturday

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Fri Nov 7, 2008 4:44pm EST
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney, who has had a long history of health problems, will have X-rays taken of his knees on Saturday to examine "long-standing knee arthritis," his office said on Friday.

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Cheney, 67, will have the X-rays taken at a medical center at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington after a trip to Lexington, Virginia, to give a speech at Virginia Military Institute Corps of Cadets, his spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said.

Previous health issues for the vice president include four heart attacks, the most recent shortly after the 2000 election, quadruple bypass surgery, and a blood clot in one leg that was discovered after a trip to Asia and the Middle East in 2007.

Cheney also had surgery to treat abnormal blood vessels, or aneurysms, behind both knees in September 2005.

(Reporting by Jeremy Pelofsky; editing by Mohammad Zargham)
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