{"id":32510,"date":"2020-11-05T09:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T14:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=32510"},"modified":"2020-12-03T15:23:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:23:28","slug":"learning-center-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2020\/11\/05\/learning-center-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 5 New Posts From The Heart Valve Learning Center!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Everybody!<\/p>\n

I recently posted some great new stories and educational videos over at the Heart Valve Learning Center<\/a>. To ensure you saw them, here’s a quick list of the Top 5 stories that generated over 20,000 social media shares.<\/p>\n

In case you missed it… Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor and former governor of California, just had his 3rd heart valve surgery.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Arnold<\/p>\n

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The patient benefits of mitral valve repair surgery<\/a> compared to mitral valve replacement surgery are well documented.\u00a0 In 2020, however, there are many different types of mitral valve repair techniques – traditional, minimally-invasive, robotic and transcatheter.\u00a0 To learn about the different approaches to reconstructing a mitral valve, I interviewed Dr. Joanna Chikwe<\/a>, the Chair of Cardiac Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.<\/p>\n

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\"Mitral<\/p>\n

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I’ve received a lot of great questions about pig valve replacements.\u00a0 So, to help our community learn about these bioprosthetic heart valve replacements, also known as a tissue valves, I posted a new educational page with 10 facts about pig valves<\/a> to help you.<\/p>\n

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\"Pig<\/p>\n

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There is a lot of excitement about the PROACT Xa clinical trial that is evaluating the On-X valve<\/a> without the use of warfarin.\u00a0 For that reason, I just interviewed Dr. Marc Gerdisch<\/a>, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Franciscan Health, who is one of the leading enrolling physicians for this trial.<\/p>\n

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\"Dr.<\/p>\n

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As COVID-19 cases continue to surge, Telehealth is becoming more-and-more important for the management and the treatment of heart valve disease.\u00a0 To learn how Dr. Vaughn Starnes<\/a> and Dr. Craig Baker<\/a>, two leading heart surgeons at Keck Medicine of USC, are using Telehealth<\/a> to help patients, I just interviewed both physicians.<\/p>\n

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\"Telehealth<\/p>\n

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I hope all this new information from the Learning Center will help educate and empower you!<\/p>\n

Keep on tickin!
\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510","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=32510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32566,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32510\/revisions\/32566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}