{"id":35078,"date":"2022-08-02T09:35:22","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=35078"},"modified":"2022-10-27T12:44:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T17:44:36","slug":"patient-quiz-dr-christopher-burke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2022\/08\/02\/patient-quiz-dr-christopher-burke\/","title":{"rendered":"Patient Quiz: What Just Happened to Andy’s Heart Valves in Dr. Burke’s Operating Room?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Andy Dial<\/a>, an avid 33-year-old fisherman from Puyallup, Washington, for sharing the amazing picture (below) from inside the operating room at UW Medicine Heart Institute<\/a> in Seattle. So you know, Andy was born with a bicuspid aortic valve<\/a>, aortic stenosis<\/a> and Wolff-Parkinson White syndrome<\/a>.\u00a0 In addition, Andy’s aorta began to dilate over the years.<\/p>\n

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\"AndrewAndy Dial (Heart Valve Patient)<\/p>\n

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On June 15, 2022, Andy had a successful heart surgery performed by Dr. Christopher Burke<\/a>, Co-Director of the Multidisciplinary Thoracic Aortic Program at UW Medicine. I know it’s a bit difficult to tell… But, do you have any idea what procedure or procedures Dr. Burke performed on Andy’s heart?<\/p>\n

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What Happened to Andy’s Heart?<\/h2>\n

It’s pretty tough to figure out, right?<\/p>\n

Well… If you look to the top of the picture, you can see a Dacron graft.\u00a0 So, that tells me Dr. Burke repaired Andy’s aortic aneurysm.<\/p>\n

Specific to the valve procedure…. We know Andy needed a replacement.\u00a0 Unfortunately, we can’t see inside the aortic root.\u00a0 But, there is a little hint on the right side of the heart.\u00a0 There is some stitching where the pulmonary valve is.\u00a0 That stitching, combined with Dr. Burke’s specialty in the Ross Procedure tells me that Dr. Burke also performed a Ross Procedure<\/a> on Andy.<\/p>\n

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\"Ross<\/p>\n

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Ready for a Unicuspid Twist?<\/h2>\n

As Andy posted at his Heart Valve Journal<\/a>, it turns out that Andy’s bicuspid valve was actually a unicuspid valve.<\/p>\n

Yep… A unicuspid valve!!! Here’s a picture.<\/p>\n

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\"UnicuspidUnicuspid Aortic Valve<\/p>\n

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Congrats to Andy, Dr. Burke & UW Medicine!<\/h2>\n

I am thrilled to hear how well Andy is doing after his operation!!! I hope he is back fishing, camping and riding dirt bikes in the near future.<\/p>\n

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\"Dr.<\/a>Dr. Christopher Burke<\/a><\/p>\n

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Many thanks to Dr. Burke and the UW Medicine team for taking such great care of Andy!<\/p>\n

Keep on tickin’ Andy!
\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35078","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\/35078","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=35078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35658,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35078\/revisions\/35658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}