{"id":143214,"date":"2026-03-19T22:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143214\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:55:10","slug":"community-connection-heart-surgery-community-connection-wfmz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143214\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Connection \u2013 Heart Surgery | Community Connection &#8211; WFMZ-TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone wants to avoid heart surgery, but sometimes you can\u2019t. Alex D\u2019Angelo, MD, a cardiac surgeon with St. Luke\u2019s Cardiovascular Associates,\u00a0talks about early warning signs you should not ignore before seeking help. He also talks about prevention strategies like a healthy diet and exercise regimen. But\u00a0if\u00a0you need to undergo a procedure,\u00a0he explains advances in current minimally invasive techniques\u00a0as well as some that are on the horizon that are revolutionizing the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone wants to avoid heart surgery, but sometimes you can\u2019t. Alex D\u2019Angelo, MD, a cardiac surgeon with St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143215,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-143214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}