{"id":3198,"date":"2010-10-19T13:29:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2019-02-26T20:34:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T01:34:17","slug":"bob-uecker-heart-valve-replacement-reoperation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/10\/19\/bob-uecker-heart-valve-replacement-reoperation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Uecker Requires Heart Valve Re-Operation Due To Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considering our recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/09\/14\/what-percent-of-heart-valve-surgeries-are-re-operations-asks-marc\/\">discussion about heart valve re-operations<\/a>, often referred to as &#8220;Re-Dos&#8221;, I wanted to wish Bob Uecker a very successful surgery today. If you didn&#8217;t know, Bob Uecker &#8212; who was anointed\u00a0 &#8220;Mr. Baseball&#8221; by Johnny Carson &#8212; will undergo his second heart valve surgery during the past six months.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Bob Eucker After Heart Surgery\" src=\"\/Images\/bob-uecker-heart-valve-replacement.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"199\" \/><br \/>\nBob Uecker &#8211; Heart Valve Surgery Patient<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>According to reports, a pseudoaneurysm (a tear) happened where his heart valve replacement is located. According to his medical team, it&#8217;s believed a skin-related staph infection entered his bloodstream and got into his surgical repair site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m approaching this with the same optimism that I had the first time,&#8221; said Uecker. &#8220;I appreciate all of the kind thoughts and well wishes from Brewers fans and everyone who has reached out to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin&#8217; Bob!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3198","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\/3198","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=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}