{"id":35391,"date":"2022-09-20T06:59:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T11:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=35391"},"modified":"2022-09-20T07:19:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T12:19:38","slug":"unicuspid-aortic-valve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2022\/09\/20\/unicuspid-aortic-valve\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What About Unicuspid Aortic Valves?&#8221; asks Leslie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received several interesting questions from Leslie about unicuspid aortic valves. She emailed me, &#8220;Hi Adam \u2013 What can you tell me about unicuspid aortic valves? How are they treated? Are they genetic? If so, should I have my family screened?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To answer Leslie&#8217;s questions about this valvular defect in which the aortic valve has only one leaflet, I was lucky to interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Samuel-Pollock-Louisville-Kentucky.php\">Dr. Samuel Pollock<\/a>, a leading cardiac surgeon at Baptist Health Louisville, who has performed over 12,000 cardiac procedures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/unicuspid-aortic-valves\/\">Click here to watch my interview with Dr. Pollock about unicuspid aortic valves.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/unicuspid-aortic-valves\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/unicuspid-aortic-valve-dr-samuel-pollock.jpg\" alt=\"Unicuspid Aortic Valve with Dr. Samuel Pollock\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Dr. Pollock for sharing his clinical experiences and research about unicuspid aortic valves with our community!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aortic-valve-replacement"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35391","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=35391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35399,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35391\/revisions\/35399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}