{"id":9491,"date":"2012-09-05T13:48:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T18:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=9491"},"modified":"2021-03-19T10:56:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T15:56:16","slug":"surgeon-spotlight-dr-edwin-mcgee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2012\/09\/05\/surgeon-spotlight-dr-edwin-mcgee\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon Spotlight: Dr. McGee Innovates To Keep Hearts Ticking!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m very happy to announce that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Edwin-McGee-Maywood-Illinois.php\">Dr. Edwin C. McGee, Jr<\/a>., a cardiac surgeon from Loyola University Medical Center in Chicago, has been named the \u2018Featured Surgeon\u2019 at HeartValveSurgery.com.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeon-database\/featured-surgeon.php\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9499\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9499\" title=\"Click To See The Surgeon Profile Of Dr. Edwin McGee\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/edwin-mcgee-md-recommended.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Edwin McGee\" width=\"257\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a>Dr. Edwin McGee &#8211; Heart Surgeon<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As you may have already seen, Dr. McGee has performed successful heart valve surgery on several patients in our community including \u2013 Michael McKeon and Maria Leibold.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael McKeon, a former aortic valve replacement patient, stated, \u201cI don\u2019t overstate the facts here &#8211; Dr. McGee and his supporting team of doctors and nurses saved my life.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Dr. McGee recently performed an innovative procedure where one ventricular assist device (VAD) was implanted into each ventricle of the patient\u2019s heart, known as biventricular configuration or BiVAD, until a donor heart became available.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Edwin-McGee-Maywood-Illinois.php\">To learn more about Dr. McGee, please click here.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-surgeons-clinics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491","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=9491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33181,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9491\/revisions\/33181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}