{"id":659,"date":"2008-12-16T09:50:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T14:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/12\/16\/david-dinkins-heart-valve-replacement-for-new-york-mayor\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T11:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:16:19","slug":"david-dinkins-heart-valve-replacement-for-new-york-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2008\/12\/16\/david-dinkins-heart-valve-replacement-for-new-york-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor David Dinkins Had Heart Valve Replacement Surgery in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former New York Mayor David Dinkins joined the growing list of public figures requiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-valve-replacement.php\">heart valve replacement surgery<\/a>. According to reports, Mayor Dinkins is recovering in a Manhattan hospital following valve replacement surgery.<\/p>\n<p>David Dinkins, New York&#8217;s first African-American mayor, is a cardiac patient at New York Presbyterian Weill-Cornell Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/DavidDinkins.jpg\" alt=\"David Dinkins, former mayor of New York, who had heart valve replacement surgery\" width=\"199\" height=\"311\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Dinkins&#8217; law partner, Peter Johnson, says the former mayor had a new heart valve installed and will likely remain at the hospital another 10 to 12 days.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson says, &#8220;the surgery went extremely well and his doctors are happy with the outcome.&#8221; He adds the heart surgery had been planned and Dinkins is eager to &#8220;get back on the tennis courts.&#8221; Earlier this year, doctors at the same hospital installed a pacemaker to regulate the 81-year-old&#8217;s heartbeat.<\/p>\n<p>David Dinkins, a democrat, served a four-year-term as mayor from 1990 to 1993, when he was succeeded by Republican Rudy Giuliani.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45346\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/arnold-schwarzenegger-jesse-helms.jpg\" alt=\"Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Helms, heart valve patients\" width=\"395\" height=\"271\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other political figures to have heart valve surgery included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/arnold-schwarzenegger.php\">Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/a> and the late Senator Jesse Helms.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin&#8217; Mayor Dinkins!<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":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659","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=659"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45348,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659\/revisions\/45348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}