{"id":497,"date":"2008-08-15T19:26:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T00:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/08\/15\/open-heart-surgery-scar-for-women\/"},"modified":"2025-06-08T16:08:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T21:08:23","slug":"open-heart-surgery-scar-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/08\/15\/open-heart-surgery-scar-for-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Heart Surgery Scars For Women: Jenny&#8217;s Picture Request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jenny must be tired of seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/open-heart-surgery-scar.php\">my scar<\/a> sprinkled throughout this website. She asks, &#8220;Adam &#8211; Do you have any pictures of incision scars for women who have had open heart surgery? I&#8217;m getting ready for open heart surgery and would like to see what my chest scar might look like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I do have two pictures of women which show an open heart surgery scar at different stages of the recovery. The picture below shows a woman still in the hospital (shortly after surgery).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22893\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/woman-heart-surgery-scar-350-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"467\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The next picture shows a lady who appears to be fully recovered. You need to look real close to see the incision scar which is no longer red (as shown above) but white. Yes, this picture is a little artsy but it does a good job showing just how well the skin can heal.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/woman-heart-surgery-scar-24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"311\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hope that helps show what an open heart surgery scar looks like for a woman. If you have any pictures that you would like to add to this blog, please leave a response.<\/p>\n<p>Related Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/04\/02\/ointment-gel-skin-surgery-healing-mederma\/\">Mederma Skin Ointment for Heart Surgery Incision Healing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/minimally-invasive-women-scar-pain\/\">Scars &amp; Pain: Minimally-Invasive Heart Surgery from a Women\u2019s Perspective<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/go-red-women-dr-joanna-chikwe\/\">We \u201cGo Red For Women\u201d with Dr. Joanna Chikwe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/robotic-surgery-breast-implants\/\">Robotic Heart Valve Surgery &amp; Breast Implants: What Should Women Know?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recovery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497","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=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42019,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/42019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}