{"id":370,"date":"2008-04-02T11:04:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T16:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/04\/02\/debbie-takes-her-new-valve-back-to-edwards-lifesciences\/"},"modified":"2018-09-02T16:15:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T21:15:38","slug":"debbie-takes-her-new-valve-back-to-edwards-lifesciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/04\/02\/debbie-takes-her-new-valve-back-to-edwards-lifesciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Debbie Takes Her New Valve Back To Edwards Lifesciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a month ago, I visited Edwards Lifesciences to tour its heart valve manufacturing museum and learn more about Edwards&#8217; heart valve replacement devices (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/03\/24\/pig-valve-transplants-tell-me-more\/\">pig valve transplants<\/a>, cow valves, minimally invasive technologies).<\/p>\n<p>After reading my blog, Debbie (a recent heart valve surgery patient) decided she wanted to visit Edwards as well. A few emails later, Debbie was on her way to Edwards&#8217; headquarters in Irvine, California to visit the world&#8217;s largest heart valve manufacturer. Considering that Debbie&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/08\/23\/cow-valve-replacement-surgery-bovine-valves\/\">cow valve replacement<\/a> was manufactured by Edwards, I guess it was sort of a homecoming for Debbie&#8217;s new pulmonary valve.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Debbie Day And Family Tour Edwards Lifesciences\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/debbie-day.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"288\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here are Debbie&#8217;s thoughts on the experience:<\/p>\n<p>I had a wonderful time at Edwards Lifesciences. Most of all, I enjoyed meeting Somori, the Edwards&#8217; employee that hand-stitched my new heart valve. Somori has worked at Edwards for four years. I was her first patient to come and visit!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing that the valve she made is now helping my heart beat right. It&#8217;s also keeping me alive! I would strongly encourage anyone that has a Edwards valve to visit their Southern California facility and meet the people that make their valves.<\/p>\n<p>So you know, my heart valve surgery was nine weeks ago at St. Josephs Hospital, here in California. My surgeon was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Richard-Gates-Mission+Viejo-California.php\">Dr. Richared Gates<\/a>. I had my pulmonary valve replaced with a 3000TFX Bovine Pericardial Valve manufactured by Edwards. My doctors believe the pericardial valve will last 20 years or more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Doctor Richard Gates - Heart Surgeon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/richard-gates.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"170\" \/><br \/>\nDr. Richard Gates<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>If anyone has a Edwards valve they can tour the Edwards museum and meet the actual person that worked on their valve. Also in the picture (above) is my husband and daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks&#8230; Debbie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}