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Robot-assisted double heart valve replacement
Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation
Minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass surgery
Totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass surgery
Tissue engineering of heart valves
Percutaneous aortic valve replacement
Hybrid cardiac surgery
Mitral valve repair