{"id":33087,"date":"2021-02-20T06:48:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T11:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=33087"},"modified":"2021-02-22T08:16:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T13:16:13","slug":"donna-hartley-medtronic-tavr-patient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2021\/02\/20\/donna-hartley-medtronic-tavr-patient\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve Day Patient Spotlight: From Tragedy to TAVR Triumph, This Is Donna&#8217;s Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/donnahartley.com\/\">Donna Hartley<\/a> has struggled with many health challenges during her life &#8211; malnourishment, heart disease, a plane crash, cancer and then&#8230; more heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>In this video, Donna shares her extraordinary journey to a healthy heart that included surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) and a <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2CEMnTL\">Medtronic transcatheter aortic valve re-replacement (TAVR)<\/a> during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8EUxtqKlkw8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Donna shares several important facts and considerations about heart valve surgery in this video including being your own best patient advocate, researching your surgeon\/cardiologist\/medical team, having a positive attitude, and setting goals for an enhanced recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Donna received her TAVR Valve-in-Valve at El Camino Health under the direct care of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Vincent-Gaudiani-Mountain+View-California.php\">Dr. Vincent Gaudiani (surgeon)<\/a> and Dr. Chad Rammohan (interventional cardiologist).<\/p>\n<p>Related Heart Valve Day Articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2021\/02\/20\/heart-valve-day\/\">Woo-Whoo! National Heart Valve Disease Day Starts Now!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/covid-5-facts-day\/\">Top 5 Facts: Managing Heart Valve Disease Amidst COVID-19<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/guidelines-shared-decision-making\/\">New ACC\/AHA Guidelines Suggests \u201cShared Decisions\u201d By Patients &amp; Doctors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2021\/02\/20\/day-giveaway\/\">Valve Day Giveaway: 10 Free HVS Hats<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin&#8217; Donna!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33087","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\/33087","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=33087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33091,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33087\/revisions\/33091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}