{"id":8721,"date":"2012-06-22T17:02:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T22:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=8721"},"modified":"2018-08-29T18:10:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T23:10:12","slug":"mini-darth-vader-max-page-pulmonary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2012\/06\/22\/mini-darth-vader-max-page-pulmonary\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Darth Vader, Max Page, Recovering From Pulmonary Valve Replacement Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned that Max Page, the 7-year old actor who played &#8216;Little Darth Vader&#8217; in a viral Volkswagen commercial, is recovering from pulmonary heart valve replacement surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"Max Page, Little Darth Vader &amp; Heart Surgery Patient\" src=\"\/Images\/max-page-heart-valve-surgery.jpg\" width=\"402\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>It turns out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Vaughn-Starnes-Los+Angeles-California.php\">Doctor Vaughn Starnes, my cardiac surgeon<\/a>, from USC Medical Center and Children&#8217;s Hospital of Los Angeles, replaced the pulmonary valve, which was diagnosed as a congenital defect when Max was just 3 months old.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Vaughn-Starnes-Los+Angeles-California.php\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Click To See The Surgeon Profile Of Dr. Vaughn Starnes\" alt=\"Dr. Vaughn Starnes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/Vaughn-Starnes.gif\" width=\"179\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nDr. Vaughn Starnes &#8211; Max&#8217;s Heart Surgeon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the 2-hour heart valve surgery, Dr. Starnes noted, &#8220;We replaced his pulmonary valve without any complications.\u201d According to reports, Max was released four days after the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin&#8217; Max!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721","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=8721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}