CNN reports : Cheney's abnormal heart rhythm corrected, spokesman says

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A procedure to restore Vice President Dick Cheney's heart to a normal rhythm went "smoothly and without complication," his spokeswoman said Wednesday.

Earlier, Megan Mitchell said doctors called to Cheney's White House office Wednesday morning found he was experiencing a recurrence of atrial fibrillation, an abnormal rhythm involving the upper chambers of the heart.

Doctors at George Washington University Hospital delivered an electrical impulse to restore Cheney's heart to a normal rhythm, Mitchell said in a statement released late in the day.

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