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What types of heart diseases are treated with surgery?

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What types of heart diseases are treated with surgery?

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Sometimes it takes more than medicine to treat heart disease. Cardiothoracic surgeon Emile Bacha, MD, discusses when and why heart disease requires surgery.

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