{"id":2651,"date":"2010-09-08T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=2651"},"modified":"2019-02-24T14:48:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-24T19:48:44","slug":"barbara-walters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/09\/08\/barbara-walters\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: After Valve Replacement, Barbara Walters Returns To The View!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great news! We have another patient success story!<\/p>\n<p>After aortic valve replacement surgery due to aortic stenosis last May, Barbara Walters returned to <em>The View<\/em> yesterday. In case you missed it, the show opened with a fun parody about Barbara&#8217;s recovery and a meaningful discussion about heart disease.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VeYURRkWQ-8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>During the show, Barbara and her co-hosts discussed many topics including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/02\/26\/diagnosing-aortic-stenosis\/\">Diagnosing aortic stenosis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/08\/15\/open-heart-surgery-scar-for-women\/\">Open heart surgery scars for women<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/sternum-broken-pain-healing.php\">Median sternotomy (sternum incision)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/06\/17\/barbara-walters-heart-valve-surgery-recovery\/\">Walking during the early recovery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, we finally learned who performed Barbara&#8217;s heart valve surgery. It turns out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Craig-Smith-New+York-New%20York.php\" rel=\"noopener\">Barbara Walters&#8217; heart surgeon was Dr. Craig Smith<\/a>, the Chairman of the Department of Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. If the name sounds familiar, that&#8217;s because Doctor Smith performed quadruple bypass on former President Bill Clinton in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/profileImages\/40_129_181.jpg\" width=\"129\" height=\"181\" \/><br \/>\nDr. Craig Smith, M.D. &#8211; Barbara Walters&#8217; Heart Surgeon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday (today), the show is going to further discuss Barbara Walters&#8217; heart valve surgery and recovery. If you are interested, don&#8217;t forget to tune-in or set your DVR!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin&#8217; Barbara!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2651","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\/2651","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=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}