{"id":36252,"date":"2023-02-28T19:48:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T00:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=36252"},"modified":"2023-03-03T12:10:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T17:10:34","slug":"radiation-cancer-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2023\/02\/28\/radiation-cancer-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon Q&#038;A: Radiation Associated Heart Valve Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While cancer treatments for conditions including Hodgkin&#8217;s disease are often called &#8220;medical miracles&#8221; by patients, their families and friends, there can be unfortunate side effects from radiation therapy.\u00a0 Specific to our community, patients may experience a unique form of heart valve disease following radiation treatment.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, I just interviewed Dr. Douglas Johnston, the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, Illinois, who has performed over 3,000 heart valve repair and replacement operations.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/radiation-associated-heart-valve-disease\/\">Click here to see my interview with Dr. Douglas Johnston.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/radiation-associated-heart-valve-disease\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/radiation-associated-heart-valve-disease.jpg\" alt=\"Radiation Therapy &amp; Heart Valve Disease with Dr. Douglas Johnston\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Douglas-Johnston-Chicago-Illinois.php\">Dr. Johnston<\/a> for educating our patient community about radiation associated heart valve disease!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-before-surgery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36252","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=36252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36325,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36252\/revisions\/36325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}