{"id":24572,"date":"2018-05-10T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=24572"},"modified":"2025-05-11T08:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T13:53:24","slug":"60-minutes-after-tavr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2018\/05\/10\/60-minutes-after-tavr\/","title":{"rendered":"60 Minutes After TAVR, Harolyn Looks This Good!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I received a phone call from Harolyn, an aortic stenosis patient, from Springfield, Missouri. \u00a0Like so many patients I speak with, Harolyn was a bit nervous, a bit concerned and a bit apprehensive about the possibility of heart valve surgery in her life. \u00a0So you know, Harolyn was no stranger to disease. \u00a0She already had 3 bouts with cancer that required radiation and chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>As we spoke, I did my best to calm her fears and educate Harolyn about potential treatment options. \u00a0The more we spoke, the more I learned that Harolyn was her own best advocate. \u00a0She had already spent time on HeartValveSurgery.com &#8211; educating herself about aortic stenosis and the minimally invasive therapies that might treat her narrow aortic valve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/dr-mack-brown-tavr-patient.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"582\" \/>Harolyn, TAVR Patient, with Dr. Brown &amp; Dr. Mack<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She said to me, &#8220;Adam, I watched your video about transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with Dr. Micheal Mack. \u00a0That sounds really interesting. \u00a0I&#8217;m willing to travel for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Long story short&#8230; I sent an email to Dr. Michael Mack. \u00a0So you know, Dr. Mack is one of the leading TAVR specialists in the world. \u00a0Guess what? \u00a0Dr. Mack actually picked up the phone and called Harolyn. \u00a0No joke! \u00a0Fourteen months later, after Harolyn&#8217;s aortic stenosis progressed to severe, she had a TAVR at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/hospital\/the-heart-hospital-baylor-plano\">The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano<\/a> with Dr. Mack and Dr. Brown in Texas. \u00a0Fyi, that happened yesterday!!!<\/p>\n<p>I have to admit. Harolyn, who is 78 years young, looks pretty darn good for just having her aortic valve replaced.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Harolyn for sharing her experience with me. \u00a0I am so happy she is on her way to recovery. \u00a0And, many thanks to Dr. Mack, Dr. Brown and The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano team for taking care of Harolyn and her family!!!<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/tavr-procedure.php\/\">See The TAVR Patient Education Center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2017\/11\/29\/1000-tavrs-the-heart-hospital-baylor-plano\/\">1,000 TAVRs for Dr. Mack, Dr. Brown &amp; The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin&#8217; Harolyn!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aortic-valve-replacement"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24572","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=24572"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41040,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24572\/revisions\/41040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}