{"id":81005,"date":"2013-07-25T16:13:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T20:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=81005"},"modified":"2013-07-26T13:27:40","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T17:27:40","slug":"young-heart-patient-says-hes-in-good-hands-with-calhoun-cardiology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/07\/young-heart-patient-says-hes-in-good-hands-with-calhoun-cardiology\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Heart Patient Says \u2018He\u2019s in Good Hands\u2019 with Calhoun Cardiology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom: 18px\">[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-HZbGcwLMT4&amp;feature=youtu.be&#8217;]<\/div>\n<p>Dan Nevelos was only 26 years old when he was diagnosed with an infection that seriously damaged his heart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re young you don\u2019t think of these things happening,\u201d explains Nevelos. \u201cHere I was with a young wife, we had only been married two years and we were planning to get a house and then to get hit by this out of the blue is just shocking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nevelos was referred to <a href=\"http:\/\/heart.uchc.edu\/physicians\/bios\/liang.html\">Dr. Bruce Liang<\/a>, the head of the <a href=\"http:\/\/heart.uchc.edu\/\">Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center<\/a> at the UConn Health Center. Thanks to Liang\u2019s expert guidance and careful monitoring, Nevelos\u2019 heart has remained strong and he\u2019s been able to avoid surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like I\u2019m in good hands,\u201d says Nevelos. \u201cAnd that really means a lot as you\u2019re talking about very serious things, life or death, when your heart\u2019s involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Nevelos was only 26 when he was diagnosed with an infection that seriously damaged his heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":81068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-81005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 08:07:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81005"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81110,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81005\/revisions\/81110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/81068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81005"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=81005"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=81005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}