{"id":1013,"date":"2009-12-15T05:34:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T10:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/12\/15\/heart-valve-repair-cryomaze-atrial-fibrilation-david-adams\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T21:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T02:01:15","slug":"heart-valve-repair-cryomaze-atrial-fibrilation-david-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/12\/15\/heart-valve-repair-cryomaze-atrial-fibrilation-david-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"After Two Valve Repairs And CryoMaze, Mark Praises Dr. Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m currently traveling through Europe for work. Right now, I\u2019m on a train going from Eindhoven to Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Yes, it&#8217;s cold. But, not as cold as Helsinki, Finland where it was freeeeeezing.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I have a few moments to read personal emails. One of those emails was from Mark Linnus, a 46 year-old patient from New York who was diagnosed with mitral valve prolapse and severe regurgitation. Over the past year, I have corresponded with Mark about his upcoming valve surgery. In particular, much of our exchange focused on surgeon selection.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; Mark has good news to report. Here is what he wrote to me:<br \/>\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/mark-linnus.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"385\" height=\"288\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Hi Adam &#8211; Just a quick note to let you know I had my surgery and was in the hospital for about a week.\u00a0 No surprise, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-David-Adams-New+York-New%20York.php\">Dr. David Adams from Mount Sinai<\/a> did a great job!<\/p>\n<p>I had my mitral and tricuspid valves repaired and a partial cryo-maze procedure done for atrial fibrilation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/david-adams-surgeon.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Dr. David Adams &#8211; Mark&#8217;s Heart Surgeon<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m at home recuperating now \u2013 taking it easy during the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>I have to let you know that your information online, as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/adam-pick-book-2016-35.php\">your heart valve surgery book<\/a>, have provided some incredible information to help me prepare for this. Thanks for all your support during the process!<\/p>\n<p>All the best,<\/p>\n<p>Mark Linnus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-surgeons-clinics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","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=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}