Fetterman says he's back home after a fall put the Pennsylvania senator in the hospital

John Fetterman says he’s backmost location with his household successful Pennsylvania aft being hospitalized

WASHINGTON -- WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. John Fetterman says helium has returned location to his household successful Pennsylvania aft being hospitalized owed to what his bureau said was a ventricular fibrillation flare-up that caused him to consciousness light-headed and autumn during an aboriginal greeting locomotion Thursday.

Fetterman, D-Pa., posted a representation Saturday connected X that showed the aftereffects to his chemoreceptor and forehead, saying “20 stitches aboriginal and a afloat recovery, I’m backmost home” with his wife, Gisele, and their children.

The smiling Fetterman besides said helium was grateful for the aesculapian squad successful Pittsburgh that “put maine backmost together."

“See you backmost successful DC,” helium concluded.

Ventricular fibrillation is the astir superior signifier of abnormal heartbeat and tin pb to cardiac apprehension — erstwhile the bosom abruptly stops beating — and abrupt cardiac death, according to the American Heart Association.

Ventricular fibrillation occurs successful the heart’s little chambers, and the bosom relation says its causes see cardiomyopathy, which Fetterman was diagnosed with successful 2022. Cardiomyopathy tin impede humor travel and perchance origin heartbeats truthful irregular they tin beryllium fatal.

Fetterman, 56, disclosed that helium was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and different benignant of abnormal heartbeat, atrial fibrillation, aft helium had a stroke during his 2022 campaign.

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