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The AGEL Comprehensive Cardiovascular Centre provides all globally recognised heart and vascular system care. The greatest assets of the centre include close cooperation between the cardiology and cardiac surgery, which in 2013  resulted in opening of one of the most state-of-the-art hybrid theatres in Europe with top equipment and technologies, including unique heart examination programmes using CT and MRI scanning. In addition to the state-of-the-art equipment and technology, the base of the cardiovascular centre is formed by leading specialist in individual branches of medicine who regularly lecture at universities as well as other respected hospitals all over the world. Owing to the unlimited experience of its specialists, the AGEL Comprehensive Cardiovascular Centre has introduced several breakthrough novelties of the world importance in the Czech Republic which every year significantly help to improve the quality of life to hundreds of patients all over the world. In a broad spectrum of the interventions conducted by the centre, the outstanding interventions include implantation of the pulmonary valve, catheter implantation of the aortic valve with a direct aortic access or occlusion of paravalvular leak of mitral prosthesis using the transapical method. The specialists of the cardiac surgery department endeavour to perform a great deal of interventions using the minimally invasive surgery ensuring the most careful access. This centre was the first in the Czech Repub