宾夕法尼亚州副州长约翰·费特曼(John Fetterman)在该州民主党参议员初选中处于领先地位，他在周二下午完成了安装起搏器和除颤器的“成功程序”，他的竞选团队当天晚些时候表示，他中风后上周末。
“约翰·费特曼刚刚成功地完成了一次植入带有除颤器的起搏器的手术。手术于下午3点15分开始，约翰于下午5点56分被释放，他得到了手术成功的解除警报。他正在医院休息，恢复得很好。约翰每天都在继续进步，他仍有望完全康复，”竞选团队在一份声明中说。
伊利诺伊大学公共卫生学院讲师、美国广播公司新闻撰稿人杰伊·巴特博士(Jay Bhatt)表示，植入除颤器和起搏器的程序“很常见，但存在感染、出血、并发症和除颤器不当电击的风险。”
费特曼的竞选团队周二早些时候宣布了他的手术，称这将“通过调节他的心率和节律，帮助保护他的心脏，并解决他中风的潜在原因——心房颤动。”自从上周中风以来，他的健康挑战使他没有参加竞选活动，他在初选日住院。
巴特博士解释了费特曼的心脏状况是如何导致他中风的:“如果不治疗，心房纤维性颤动会导致中风。如果由心房纤维性颤动引起的心脏上腔中的血凝块脱离，它会进入大脑并导致中风。这可能是一个小问题，也可能是一个更严重的问题。患有Afib的人患中风的风险是普通人的三到五倍。
费特曼的竞选团队发布了一张他周二早上在医院进行紧急缺席投票的照片，他正在医院康复。他的团队表示，他不会参加选举之夜的派对，将留在医院。他的妻子吉赛尔将代替他发言。
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宾夕法尼亚州民主党参议员候选人、副州长约翰·费特曼参加了一个会议...
费特曼自2019年以来一直担任副州长，去年2月他竞选参议员时成为全国关注的焦点。作为一名进步人士，他正在与更温和的众议员康纳·兰姆等人争夺民主党提名。今年晚些时候的大选可能有助于决定国会的权力平衡。
民主党人认为，在这场竞选中领先的中风是他们在参议院获得提升的最佳机会，此前，另外两名民主党人今年正在参议院从中风中康复。马里兰州参议员克里斯·范·霍伦(Chris Van Hollen)周日宣布，他轻微中风，已住院治疗。新墨西哥州参议员本·雷·卢汉(Ben Ray Luján)因中风住院数周，今年1月接受了脑部手术，但他在3月重返参议院。
费瑟曼不符合典型参议员的形象:身高6英尺8英寸，秃顶，留山羊胡子，有纹身，经常避开传统西装和领带，喜欢短裤和迪克衬衫。
他在哈佛大学(Harvard University)获得了公共政策硕士学位，但他一直以蓝领阶层的方式参加竞选，在四年前与民主党人汤姆·沃尔夫(Tom Wolf)一起当选州长之前，他曾担任匹兹堡郊外小镇布拉多克(Braddock)的市长16年。
费特曼此前曾在2016年竞选参议员，但在初选中失利。
周二，兰姆在他所在选区的一个投票站外接受美国广播公司新闻采访时谈到费特曼的健康挑战，“我祝他一切顺利。”
兰姆称他们的比赛是在“基于两套不同经验和两种不同性格的两条截然不同的道路”之间的选择
宾夕法尼亚州民主党初选的三名主要候选人是费特曼和兰姆以及州众议员马尔科姆·肯雅塔。投票将于美国东部时间晚上8点结束。
Pennsylvania Senate hopeful John Fetterman has primary day surgery after stroke
Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the front-runner in the state's Democratic Senate primary race, completed a "successful procedure" to get a pacemaker and defibrillator on Tuesday afternoon, his campaign said later that day,after he suffered a strokelate last week.
"John Fetterman just completed a successful procedure to implant a pacemaker with a defibrillator. The procedure began at 3:15pm, John was released at 5:56pm, and he has been given the all-clear that it was successful. He is resting at the hospital and recovering well. John continues to improve every day, and he is still on track for a full recovery," the campaign said in a statement.
Dr. Jay Bhatt, an internal medicine physician, instructor at the University of Illinois School of Public Health and ABC News Contributor, said procedures to implant a defibrillator and pacemaker are "common but carry risks of infection, bleeding, and complications and inappropriate shocks from the defibrillator."
Fetterman's campaign announced his procedure earlier Tuesday, saying it would "help protect his heart and address the underlying cause of his stroke, atrial fibrillation (A-fib), by regulating his heart rate and rhythm." His health challenges had kept him off the campaign trail since the stroke last week and he was hospitalized on primary day.
Dr. Bhatt explained how Fetterman's heart condition could have caused his stroke: "Atrial fibrillation can cause stroke if left untreated. If a blood clot in the upper chamber of heart caused by atrial fibrillation breaks free it can go to the brain and cause a stroke. It can be a minor issue or a more serious issue. Those with Afib are three to five times greater risk for stroke."
Fetterman's campaign released a photo of him Tuesday morning voting with an emergency absentee ballot from the hospital, where he is recovering. His team had said that he would not be attending his election night party and would remain in the hospital. His wife, Gisele, will speak in his place.
The lieutenant governor since 2019, Fetterman entered the national spotlight when he launched his campaign for the Senate last February. A progressive, he is vying for the Democratic Party nomination against the more moderate Rep. Conor Lamb and others. The general election there, later this year, could help decide the balance of power in Congress.
The front-runner's stroke in a race that Democrats see as their best shot for a pickup in Senate follows two other Democrats currently serving in the Senate recovering from strokes this year. Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen announced on Sunday that he suffered a minor stroke and had been hospitalized. New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján underwent brain surgery in January following a stroke that left him hospitalized for weeks, but he returned to the Senate in March.
Fetterman doesn't fit the mold for what a typical senator looks like: Standing 6-foot-8, he is bald, goateed and tattooed and frequently eschews traditional suits and ties in favor of shorts and Dickies shirts.
He earned his master's degree in public policy from Harvard University but has campaigned with a blue-collar approach, having served as the mayor of the small borough of Braddock, just outside Pittsburgh, for 16 years before being elected alongside Gov. Tom Wolf, a fellow Democrat, four years ago.
Fetterman previously ran for Senate in 2016, but lost in the primary.
Speaking with ABC News outside a polling place in his district on Tuesday, Lamb said of Fetterman amid his health challenges, "I wish him well."
Lamb called their race a choice between "two very different paths based on two different sets of experience and two different personalities."
The three leading candidates to watch in the Pennsylvania Democratic primary race are Fetterman and Lamb as well as state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta. Polls close at 8 p.m. ET.
