{"id":20451,"date":"2016-03-18T11:37:28","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T16:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=20451"},"modified":"2025-05-13T15:30:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:30:37","slug":"valve-in-valve-jesse-mcbride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2016\/03\/18\/valve-in-valve-jesse-mcbride\/","title":{"rendered":"From Immediate Bed Rest to a &#8220;Valve-in-Valve&#8221; Procedure, This Is Jesse&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse had been put on immediate bed rest. Jesse had not one&#8230; But, two heart surgeries. Then, he needed\u00a0a third. Jesse learned of a new technology\u00a0known as a &#8220;Valve-in-Valve&#8221; procedure that was in clinical trials. This is his story.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MnuydOEuDxY?rel=0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so much to Jesse, Jean, Molly and the entire McBride family for letting me into their home and into their lives. This is the first &#8220;Valve-in-Valve&#8221; patient success story that I&#8217;ve\u00a0filmed. Hopeful, it will not be the last. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230; A humongous\u00a0thanks goes out to Dr. Chris Malaise for helping educate our community about the &#8220;Valve-in-Valve&#8221; program at Northwestern Medicine. This really is an amazing technology!!!<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-S.+Chris-Malaisrie-Chicago-Illinois.php\">See Dr. Malaisrie&#8217;s Interactive Surgeon Profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/transcatheter-valve-in-valve-procedure\/\">Transcatheter Valve-in-Valve: What Should Patients Know?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>P.S. For the hearing impaired members of our community, here is written transcript of my interviews with Jesse, his family and Dr. Malaisrie:<\/p>\n<p>Jesse McBride: My name is James McBride. I\u2019m 64 years old. I go by the name Jesse. It\u2019s a nickname I\u2019ve had since I was one. I was in construction\/pipefitter\/ welder. We did HVAC systems in hospitals and schools with all types of process piping. I was probably about 41 years old, and I was actually on a job carrying welding lead up stairs and I found that I couldn\u2019t quite get up the stairs without stopping at every level because I was huffing and puffing.<\/p>\n<p>The internist I saw, he heard a murmur and he said, \u201cI think we need to get an echocardiogram.\u201d The echo showed that I had a 7.3 aortic aneurysm. My wife and I just looked at each other and couldn\u2019t believe it; we just tried to go from there.<\/p>\n<p>Jean McBride: When Jesse was diagnosed with his aneurysm, it was devastating. It just shocked us all.<\/p>\n<p>Molly McBride: When I found out that my dad was going to have open-heart surgery, I was traumatized. I can remember going into my volleyball coach\u2019s office and trying to tell her I had just heard this news, and I couldn\u2019t even talk. I just sobbed. It just seemed like it was the end of the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/mcbride-family.jpg\" alt=\"mcbride-family\" width=\"550\" height=\"304\" \/>Jean, Molly &amp; Jesse McBride<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jesse McBride: They told me that that valve should last about 7 to 10 years. I went about my life and got back in to coaching. I felt good. About 8\u00bd years after the surgery, I was working on a job where we were tearing up a lot of old ductwork, and I contracted a fungal blood infection. My kidneys shut down. My liver shut down. They couldn\u2019t wait to get that resolved, so they did emergency open-heart surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Jean McBride: When we found out that he was going to have his second surgery, we were really concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Molly McBride: He was in so much more pain this time, and I\u2019ll never forget when the cardiologist asked my mom to step out in the hall with the two of us together and told us to get all his papers in order.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse McBride: Sort of miraculously, the doctor said that my kidneys bounced back. My liver bounced back, and then approximately 11 or 12 years after that surgery, I had been seeing my cardiologist periodically, and the valve was starting to narrow and that I would probably have to have surgery again in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Molly McBride: We always knew there would probably be a third procedure, so there was no more shock. We knew it was coming, and he, again, did his research and the procedure he went through was the valve-in-valve and it was the best thing ever.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Chris Malaisrie: Valve-in-valve procedure refers to a transcatheter heart valve procedure where we put a transcatheter heart valve inside an old surgical tissue valve. What made Mr. McBride an excellent candidate for the valve-in-valve procedure was because he already had a surgical aortic valve replacement with a tissue valve in the past. He had some comorbidities that would prefer a transcatheter approach over a surgical approach.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse McBride: When I woke up the day of surgery, I could tell immediately the difference. I could breathe easier that evening. I got up and I walked, and I didn\u2019t get tired whatsoever. It was the best procedure I had had.<\/p>\n<p>I would recommend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/hospital\/northwestern-memorial-valve-program\">Northwestern Medicine<\/a> to anybody just because of the doctors they have and the care they have. Everybody that walks in, even the person greeting you and asking you for information is just so friendly. I\u2019m fortunate that it\u2019s only 25 miles away from me, and I know of people that come from all around the world to go to Northwestern. I would recommend it to anybody.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Chris Malaisrie: Mr. McBride is doing great after his valve-in-valve procedure, and he made a quick recovery with a short length of stay.<\/p>\n<p>Jean McBride: The surgeries have really brought our family together and really placed the value of life way up there.<\/p>\n<p>Jesse McBride: I wouldn&#8217;t wish heart surgery on anybody. If you have to have it, make sure you get excellent surgeons, do the recovery process, get well as fast as you can, and hopefully if you do have to have it, you\u2019ll only have to have it once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20451","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\/20451","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=20451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41251,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20451\/revisions\/41251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}