Fetterman, Senator Who Survived Stroke, Hospitalized After Fall

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Senator John Fetterman, the Pennsylvania Democrat whose 2022 campaign was almost derailed by a near-fatal stroke, was hospitalized on Thursday after a fall near his home outside of Pittsburgh.

Mr. Fetterman, 56, was taking an early morning walk in Braddock, the town where he once served as mayor, when he became lightheaded and fell, causing minor injuries to his face, his office said in a statement on social media. He was taken to a hospital in Pittsburgh where he was found to have what the statement described as “a ventricular fibrillation flare-up.”


Time for PA to retire this guy.
 
Senator John Fetterman, the Pennsylvania Democrat whose 2022 campaign was almost derailed by a near-fatal stroke, was hospitalized on Thursday after a fall near his home outside of Pittsburgh.

Mr. Fetterman, 56, was taking an early morning walk in Braddock, the town where he once served as mayor, when he became lightheaded and fell, causing minor injuries to his face, his office said in a statement on social media. He was taken to a hospital in Pittsburgh where he was found to have what the statement described as “a ventricular fibrillation flare-up.”


Time for PA to retire this guy.
I hope he is ok and recovers quickly. He's the only rational Democrat left.
 
According to Mayo clinic, ventricular fibrillation is a kind of irregular heart rhythm that leads to the heart failing to pump blood to the rest of the body.

The clinic describes it as “an emergency that requires immediate medical attention” and the most common cause of sudden cardiac death.

Fetterman had a stroke four days before the Senate primary in May 2022, caused by a blood clot that had blocked a major artery in his brain. He said at the time that he has a-fib, an irregular heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation, which likely contributed to the stroke.

 
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