{"id":34390,"date":"2022-01-31T14:50:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T19:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=34390"},"modified":"2022-02-02T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T16:26:31","slug":"patient-success-ross-proceure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2022\/01\/31\/patient-success-ross-proceure\/","title":{"rendered":"Reed Is &#8220;Changed&#8221; Thanks to the Ross Procedure &#038; Dr. Starnes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing better than hearing from patients about their personal journeys to healthy hearts.  For example, I just got a wonderful email from Reed about his successful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/ross-procedure\/\">Ross Procedure<\/a> with Dr. Vaughn Starnes at Keck Medicine of USC.  (As you might recall, Dr. Starnes performed my Ross Procedure over 15 years ago.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/ross-procedure-patient-vaughn-starnes-md.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Procedure Patient\" width=\"400\" height=\"640\" \/>Reed After Ross Procedure with Danny<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In his email to me, Reed writes: <\/p>\n<p>Hi Adam &#8211; I wanted to write and share that I had the Ross Procedure last Wednesday, January 19th with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Vaughn-Starnes-Los+Angeles-California.php\">Dr. Vaughn Starnes<\/a>! \u00a0It seems to have gone perfectly! \u00a0I was discharged the following Wednesday. \u00a0As I wrote in an update to family: I am changed.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re living proof that Dr. Starnes is an amazing surgeon. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We continue to be so grateful to everyone at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/hospital\/usc-heart-valve-clinic-starnes\">USC-Keck Medicine<\/a> for all of the support along the way. \u00a0Especially the 5W Cardiac ICU team. Every single person we met at USC-Keck was professional, kind and helpful. \u00a0I have to share a special nod to Bob Sachs, Dr. Starnes physician assistant, as he played such a role in helping us choose USC-Keck.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/profileImages\/273_129_168.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Vaughn Starnes\" width=\"129\" height=\"168\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Vaughn-Starnes-Los+Angeles-California.php\">Dr. Vaughn Starnes (USC)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Your book was an amazing help as we found our way through the journey (it is still underway of course). \u00a0Wanted to share a big thanks to you!<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, my husband, Danny, and I are recovering with family in Studio City, CA.<\/p>\n<p>Below are a few progress pictures:<\/p>\n<p>Sunshine time, ordered by the ICU doctor (just out of frame is the med-box and emergency supplies in case I tried to go swimming) with Danny (out of frame is Hannah our ICU nurse who is taking the picture).<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/reed-walking-after-surgery.jpg\" alt=\"Heart Valve Patient Walking After Surgery at USC\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nWalking out of the hospital on my own two feet with Danny, my husband.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/reed-leaving-hospital.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nAll of my best,<br \/>\nReed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ross-procedure"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34390","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=34390"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34425,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34390\/revisions\/34425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}