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X-Ray Trivia: Can You Find Joe's New Heart Valve Replacement?

Written By: Adam Pick, Patient Advocate, Author & Website Founder
Page Last Updated: June 10, 2025

Joseph Minnucci has really taken advantage of our new Heart Valve Journals tool to communicate with his support group and fellow patients. That said, you may already be aware that Joe had heart valve replacement surgery on February 8, 2010.

Joseph Minucci, Aortic Valve Replacement Patient, After Heart Surgery

Joseph Minnucci (Heart ValvePatient)

After reading through Joe's journals, I clicked on his photos section. Amongst all the interesting and fun pictures, I found an x-ray which actually shows Joe's new, aortic tissue valve. I thought you might want to see this amazing photo, so I inserted the picture below.

To help you locate the new heart valve replacement, I included a red arrow that points directly to Joe's new, 27 mm sized tissue valve.

Xray of patient's heart valve replacement after surgery

X-Ray Of Joe's Tissue Aortic Valve Replacement

Pretty neat x-ray, right?

So you know, if you look real close... On the left side of the x-ray, you can see a few sternal wires as well.

Thanks to Joe for sharing this incredible x-ray with us!

Written by Adam Pick - Patient & Website Founder

Adam Pick is a heart valve patient and author of The Patient's Guide To Heart Valve Surgery. In 2006, Adam founded HeartValveSurgery.com to educate and empower patients. This award-winning website has helped over 10 million people fight heart valve disease. Adam has been featured by the American Heart Association and Medical News Today.

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