Unlabelled: Dr. O.P. Yadava, CEO & Chief Cardiac Surgeon, National Heart Institute, New Delhi, India and Editor-in-Chief, Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery in conversation with Dr. Shyam Kolvekar, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Barts Heart Centre, London, UK.
Supplementary Information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12055-021-01222-0.
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