{"id":1056,"date":"2010-02-26T10:31:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T15:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/02\/26\/carbomedics-aortic-valve-replacement-portugal-video\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T20:55:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T01:55:33","slug":"carbomedics-aortic-valve-replacement-portugal-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/02\/26\/carbomedics-aortic-valve-replacement-portugal-video\/","title":{"rendered":"In Portugal, Filomeno Gets A Carbomedics Aortic Valve Replacement (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is nothing better than waking up, enjoying a cup of coffee, turning on the computer and finding a patient success story in my inbox.<\/p>\n

Today, I received a patient success story all the way from Portugal. It’s about Filomeno Faustino’s recent aortic valve replacement with a Carbomedics Top Hat mechanical device. Here is what Filomeno wrote to me:<\/p>\n

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\"Filomeno<\/p>\n

Filomeno Faustino – Nine Days After Valve Surgery<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Dear Adam,<\/p>\n

Recently, my aortic valve was replaced because I had a bicuspid aortic valve caused by a genetic problem. I have attached a picture which shows me nine days after surgery.<\/p>\n

The surgery was successful!!!<\/p>\n

I received a new mechanical valve known as the Carbomedics Top Hat which is manufactured by the Sorin Group. I understand this valve is somewhat<\/em> similar to the On-X mechanical valve<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the surgery, I was in the intensive care<\/a> unit for 29 hours. For six of those hours, I was on ventilator support<\/a>. In total, I stayed one week in Hospital De Santa Cruz in Lisbon, Portugal.<\/p>\n

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Carbomedics Top Hat Mechanical Valve Picture & Video
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My surgical team and support staff (doctors, nurses, etc.) were wonderful and highly qualified. I really appreciate all of their encouragement during my hospital stay.<\/p>\n

Finally Adam, I can not forget you. Your book<\/a> helped me a lot before and after surgery. Keep doing this great work. Thanks!!!<\/p>\n

Best Regards,<\/p>\n

Filomeno Faustino
\nPortugal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","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\/1056","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=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}