{"id":1081,"date":"2010-06-17T13:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T18:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/06\/17\/dr-marc-gillinov-cleveland-clinic-heart-valve-surgeon\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T19:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T00:22:10","slug":"dr-marc-gillinov-cleveland-clinic-heart-valve-surgeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/06\/17\/dr-marc-gillinov-cleveland-clinic-heart-valve-surgeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Marc Gillinov Gets 12 Thumbs And 2 Paws Up!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few months, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Marc-Gillinov-Cleveland-Ohio.php\">Dr. A. Marc Gillinov<\/a>, a leading heart surgeon from The Cleveland Clinic, has been incredibly supportive of our patients and caregivers. Not only did Dr. Gillinov host an exclusive Internet chat with our community, but he quickly responds to many of your questions that I forward to him.<\/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\/Images\/gillinov-spencer.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Marc Gillinov And Don Spencer, his heart valve patient\" width=\"375\" height=\"281\" \/><br \/>\nDon Spencer with Dr. A. Marc Gillinov<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Most importantly, Dr. Gillinov is performing successful surgery on our growing family. As a result, my inbox is flooded with patient praise for Dr. Gillinov. That said, I have provided pictures of six patients &#8211; Don, Fran, Sandy, William, Sam (and Slater, the dog), and Anita &#8211; that have had successful heart valve repair and heart valve replacement surgery at the hands of Dr. Gillinov.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/franzilko\">Fran Zilko<\/a>, shown below, traveled to Cleveland from Bonita Springs, Florida.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/profileimg\/username\/franzilko\" alt=\"Fran Zilko, patient of Dr. Marc Gillinov\" width=\"330\" height=\"440\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On April 13, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/sandygilbert\">Sandy Gilbert<\/a> from New Mexico had aortic valve replacement surgery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/photoimg\/id\/641\/width\/240\/height\/180\" alt=\"Sandy Gilbert, patient of Dr. Marc Gillinov\" width=\"279\" height=\"209\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/williamthune\">William Thune<\/a>, traveled to the Cleveland Clinic from Tulsa, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/photoimg\/id\/569\/width\/240\/height\/180\" alt=\"William Thune, patient of Dr. Marc Gillinov\" width=\"307\" height=\"230\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/03\/24\/guided-imagery-cds\/\">Sam from Oregon<\/a>, with his dog Slater:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/sam-swerdlow.jpg\" alt=\"Saw Swerdlow, heart valve patient of Dr. Gillinov\" width=\"375\" height=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And, here is the one-and-only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2009\/06\/03\/anita-58-praises-dr-gillinov-and-shares-heart-valve-surgery-tips\/\">Anita Devine<\/a>, who had mitral valve repair.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/anita.jpg\" alt=\"Anita Devine, Mitral Valve Repair Patient of Dr. Marc Gillinov, holding red pillow\" width=\"350\" height=\"409\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of this community, our thanks and appreciation go out to Dr. Gillinov and his team!!!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin&#8217; Dr. Gillinov!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","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\/1081","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=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44454,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/44454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}