{"id":39671,"date":"2024-11-19T12:32:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T17:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=39671"},"modified":"2024-11-19T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T17:55:09","slug":"interventional-cardiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2024\/11\/19\/interventional-cardiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Interventional Cardiology: What Should You Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent patient survey, we learned that <strong>53% of patients<\/strong> are not aware of the critical role that an interventional cardiologist plays within a heart team.<\/p>\n<p>So, to help you learn about the importance of interventional cardiology for the lifetime treatment of heart valve disease, we just spent an entire day with Dr. Raj Makkar, a world-renowned interventional cardiologist who has performed over 7,000 transcatheter heart valve procedures that did not require an incision to the patient&#8217;s chest or ribs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/day-life-interventional-cardiologist\/\">Click here to see our new video, &#8220;A &#8216;Day In The Life&#8217; with Dr. Raj Makkar&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/day-life-interventional-cardiologist\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/day-in-life-interventional-cardiologist-raj-makkar.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Raj Makkar - Interventional Cardiologist\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/interventional-cardiologist\/dr-Raj-Makkar-Los+Angeles-California.php\">Dr. Raj Makkar<\/a> for the special invitation to learn more about interventional cardiology and the use of transcatheter devices for the treatment of diseases including aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39671","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=39671"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39678,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39671\/revisions\/39678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}