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Beating the Cardiac Odds Brings New Hope for Lehigh County Man
… Crest Blvd … … … Don’t bet against Dan Howard. When he was admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit at Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH)–Cedar Crest on Jan. 9 with severe heart failure, the odds were about 1,000-to-1 against him going home. His … its main pumping chamber. After more time in cardiac intensive care and in other transitional units, Howard left the hospital for home on April 12. … Howard was no stranger to heart trouble when he arrived at the LVH–Carbon emergency room … her husband’s breathing had become more difficult and labored in the days before they decided they needed to get to the hospital on Jan. 9. “It was just to the point that it seemed like it was getting worse,” she says. Dan was transferred by …