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The editorial argues that the 'Heart Team' concept, while theoretically advantageous and guideline-recommended, is currently impractical due to unaddressed systemic issues.
Post Syntax Trial, 'Heart Team' Concept has been ensconsed class I recommendation in both the European and ACC/AHA guidelines and has gained increasing traction in context of complex and multi modality procedures. Despite an arrray of advantages including the much touted - 'the patient is central', there are a plethora of un-addressed issues, some of which sentinel to our country, which threaten to make the 'Heart Team' concept a perfunctory exercise. As it stands today, 'Heart Team' is more of a fictional euphemism, a kind of 'Platonic Illusion' rather than a pragmatic reality.
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