{"id":18034,"date":"2023-02-16T20:31:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T20:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/news\/day-herm\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T21:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T21:15:37","slug":"day-herm","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/news\/day-herm\/","title":{"rendered":"Un procedimiento que mejora la vida a\u00f1ade a\u00f1os a la de Day Herman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Day Herman se enter\u00f3 de que ten\u00eda un soplo card\u00edaco durante un examen f\u00edsico rutinario realizado hace unos dos a\u00f1os por <a href=\"http:\/\/Day Herman learned she had a heart murmur during a routine physical exam conducted about two years ago by Dr. David Chesney, her Southcoast Health primary care physician.\">Dr. David Chesney<\/a>su m\u00e9dico de atenci\u00f3n primaria de Southcoast Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Una visita de seguimiento con <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/albert-lin-md\/#\/appointment-chooser\/providerId\/2604\/patientTypeId\">Dr. Albert Lin<\/a>Un cardi\u00f3logo de Southcoast revel\u00f3 que Day ten\u00eda una v\u00e1lvula cardiaca calcificada, lo que requer\u00eda un seguimiento con un ecocardiograma cada seis meses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Cada vez que iba, la v\u00e1lvula estaba un poco peor\", dice. \"Entonces empec\u00e9 a asustarme\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Los tratamientos con nebulizador ya no aliviaban la dificultad respiratoria que achacaba al asma y la bronquitis. La fatiga le imped\u00eda realizar las tareas dom\u00e9sticas. Y mover los muebles para reorganizar la casa, algo que le encantaba, era imposible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Dr. Lin identific\u00f3 las dificultades respiratorias y la fatiga como s\u00edntomas de su problema valvular y la remiti\u00f3 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/doctors\/adam-saltzman-md\/\">Dr. Adam Saltzman<\/a>cardi\u00f3logo intervencionista en el Charlton Memorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Dr. Saltzman recomend\u00f3 un reemplazo de v\u00e1lvula a\u00f3rtica transcat\u00e9ter... <a href=\"https:\/\/library.southcoast.org\/Search\/135,79\">(TAVR)<\/a> una intervenci\u00f3n m\u00ednimamente invasiva que utiliza un cat\u00e9ter para implantar una nueva v\u00e1lvula en el coraz\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Me dijo que sin el TAVR me quedaban dos a\u00f1os de vida\", cuenta Day. \"Eso fue una llamada de atenci\u00f3n\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El TAVR puede salvar y mejorar la vida de pacientes cardiacos que, por su edad o estado de salud, no podr\u00edan someterse a una intervenci\u00f3n a coraz\u00f3n abierto. A sus 74 a\u00f1os, la edad y el estado general de salud de Day la hac\u00edan apta, por lo que se someti\u00f3 a la intervenci\u00f3n el 14 de diciembre de 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Dr. Saltzman realiz\u00f3 la intervenci\u00f3n en menos de 30 minutos y, s\u00f3lo un d\u00eda despu\u00e9s de la operaci\u00f3n que le salv\u00f3 la vida, regres\u00f3 a casa. Tras dos semanas de reposo y recuperaci\u00f3n, el Dr. Saltzman la autoriz\u00f3 a realizar actividades normales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muy pronto, Day estaba reorganizando los muebles de nuevo, convirtiendo su comedor en su sala de estar y su sala de estar en su comedor. \"El Dr. Saltzman me dijo que ten\u00eda el coraz\u00f3n de una persona de 20 a\u00f1os\", afirma. \"Recomiendo el TAVR a cualquiera que lo necesite\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Day, madre de dos hijos y con una nieta de 18 a\u00f1os, atribuye la salvaci\u00f3n de su vida a Southcoast Health y al amable y atento personal del hospital. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/locations\/charlton-memorial-hospital\/\">Monumento a Charlton<\/a> con facilitar al m\u00e1ximo el proceso.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"Han a\u00f1adido entre 15 y 20 a\u00f1os a mi vida\", dijo. \"Con suerte, alg\u00fan d\u00eda asistir\u00e9 a la boda de mi nieta\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Visite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/es\/services\/cardio-heart-vascular\/#\/slot-search\/specialtyGroup\/C6F9F0E3-906B-40DB-86AA-8CECC0A43FA3\">Top Cardi\u00f3logo Southeast MA | Southcoast Health<\/a> para obtener m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n sobre el Heart &amp; Vascular del Charlton Memorial Hospital. <\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":4482,"template":"","categories":[1231],"class_list":["post-18034","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-patient-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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