{"id":43722,"date":"2026-04-24T12:04:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=43722"},"modified":"2026-04-24T16:11:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:11:56","slug":"ask-adam-anything-aats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2026\/04\/24\/ask-adam-anything-aats\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Questions About Heart Valve Surgery? Let\u2019s Get You Answers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Later this week, I\u2019ll be attending the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) conference in Chicago\u2014one of the most important gatherings of cardiac surgeons on the planet.<\/p>\n<p>At AATS, I\u2019ll be filming a new educational video series for patients with world-renowned heart valve experts, including Dr. Marc Gillinov (Cleveland Clinic), Dr. Patrick McCarthy (Northwestern Medicine), Dr. Bill Brinkman (Baylor Scott &amp; White), Dr. Juan Pablo Umana (University of Miami), and Dr. Eric Roselli (Cleveland Clinic).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43725\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/aaa-aats.jpg\" alt=\"Ask Adam Anything\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is your opportunity to get real answers from the very best. If you have a question about heart valve disease\u2014whether it\u2019s about diagnosis, treatment options, recovery, or long-term care\u2014you can ask it. I\u2019ll do my best to get your question answered directly by one of these leading surgeons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&gt; Simply email your question to adam@heartvalvesurgery.com, and I\u2019ll take it from there.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to helping you get the answers you need!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43722","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\/43722","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=43722"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43739,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43722\/revisions\/43739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}