{"id":560,"date":"2008-09-10T22:29:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T03:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/09\/10\/cat-scans-after-open-heart-surgery\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T22:14:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T03:14:47","slug":"cat-scans-after-open-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/09\/10\/cat-scans-after-open-heart-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cat Scans After Open Heart Surgery?&#8221; For Jerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry just wrote me asking, &#8220;Did you have a cat scan after your open heart surgery?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. I have to admit, I don&#8217;t remember having a cat scan after my aortic valve replacement surgery. However, I did have a bunch of x-rays taken after the operation. In fact, I was taken to Radiology every morning following my aortic valve surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/cat-scan-heart.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"275\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>If you are interested to learn more about cat scans, here is some good information from RadiologyInfo.org.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CT scanning\u2014sometimes called CAT scanning\u2014is a noninvasive, painless medical test that helps physicians diagnose and treat medical conditions.<\/li>\n<li>CT imaging uses special x-ray equipment to produce multiple images or pictures of the inside of the body and a computer to join them together in cross-sectional views of the area being studied. The images can then be examined on a computer monitor or printed.<\/li>\n<li>CT scans of internal organs, bone, soft tissue and blood vessels provide greater clarity than conventional x-ray exams.<\/li>\n<li>Using specialized equipment and expertise to create and interpret CT scans of the body, radiologists can more easily diagnose problems such as cancers, cardiovascular disease, infectious disease, trauma and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2007\/10\/26\/musculoskeletal-how-about-a-definition\/\">musculoskeletal disorders<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope that helps explain more about <em>cats scans after heart surgery<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/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":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recovery"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","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=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}