{"id":406,"date":"2008-05-13T08:32:50","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T13:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/05\/13\/wow-actual-valve-pictures-before-and-after-mitral-valve-repair\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:33:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:33:09","slug":"wow-actual-valve-pictures-before-and-after-mitral-valve-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/05\/13\/wow-actual-valve-pictures-before-and-after-mitral-valve-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Before & After: Mitral Valve Repair Surgery Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

This deserves a “Wow!”<\/p>\n

I could ramble on about how neat this is… Instead, I’ll simply let Geoff explain. Here is Geoff’s email:<\/p>\n

Hi Adam,<\/p>\n

I am home from my surgery!!<\/p>\n

The mitral valve repair was performed<\/a> last Tuesday morning. I left Duke Medical Center, five days later, on Saturday morning at 9:45 am!<\/p>\n

I am fairly weak and somewhat sore. But, overall I am doing great. I spent the first night after heart surgery in the intensive care unit (ICU)<\/a>. The breathing tube and TEE were removed in the first few hours after surgery. I had tubes coming out of me from many places – an IV in my neck, left arm artery, left arm near elbow and right arm.<\/p>\n

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\"Picture<\/div>\n
Geoff’s Diseased Mitral Valve Before Surgery<\/div>\n

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I can’t say enough good things about the staff at Duke Medical Center. My surgeon, Doctor Donald Glower<\/a>, was able to repair the valve so that there was 0% mitral regurgitation. If you are interested, I have attached the before and after pics. (To learn more about mitral regurgitation, click here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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\"Patient<\/div>\n
Geoff’s Mitral Valve After Heart Valve Repair – 0% Regurgitation<\/div>\n

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Thank you for your heart valve book, and all the blog members, for their stories and insight. Heart surgery truly is an emotional journey. My fiancee, Lisa, and I are very happy to be through it.<\/p>\n

Thanks… Geoff<\/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":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mitral-valve-repair"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","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=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}