{"id":10106,"date":"2013-01-15T13:33:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=10106"},"modified":"2018-08-26T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T23:58:00","slug":"dr-alfredo-trento-md-patient-success-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2013\/01\/15\/dr-alfredo-trento-md-patient-success-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Years After Mitral Valve Repair, Patricia Considers Her Surgery A Blessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received a great, 3-year anniversary update from Patricia Shabel of Los Angeles, California. Patricia had a mitral valve repair operation after being diagnosed with a heart murmur and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/leaking-heart-valve-symptoms.php\">a leaky valve<\/a> over 40 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/dr-alfredo-trento-heart-patient-success.jpeg\" alt=\"Patricia Shabel, Mitral Valve Repair Patient Of Dr. Alfredo Trento \" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" \/>Patricia Shabel &#8211; Mitral Valve Repair Patient<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>In her note, Patricia writes to me:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hi Adam!<\/p>\n<p>I recently celebrated my third anniversary from mitral valve repair surgery.\u00a0 I now have a strong beating heart with no leakage or murmur for the first time in my life. So you know, I was born with a heart murmur in 1965. Since then, I had been actively monitoring the valve. It took 44 years but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/mitral-valve-regurgitation-symptoms-leaking.php\">severity of the mitral regurgitation<\/a> progressed to the point that I needed surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The very kind and very generous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Alfredo-Trento-Los+Angeles-California.php\">Doctor Alfredo Trento<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/hospital\/cedars-sinai-heart-institute\">Cedars-Sinai Medical Center<\/a> repaired my mitral valve using the minimally invasive procedure with the DaVinci robot.\u00a0 While others turned me down for the operation, Dr. Trento and his team found a way to make it happen. I believe that Dr. Trento and this procedure was a blessing in my life. I am forever grateful.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/profileImages\/7.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Alfredo Trento, MD - Heart Surgeon\" width=\"151\" height=\"211\" \/><br \/>\nDr. Alfredo Trento &#8211; Patricia&#8217;s Heart Valve Surgeon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/adam-pick-book-2016-35.php\">heart valve surgery book<\/a> and the patient community on your website were a vital part of understanding what I was dealing with &#8212; preparing for the surgery and recuperating from it with the inspiration of others who had gone before me.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your ongoing commitment to educating and supporting those going through heart valve surgery!<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Shabel<br \/>\nMitral Valve Repair<br \/>\nLos Angeles, California<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}