[Cardiac surgery in XXI centure--science, technics of pure art?].

Modern cardiac surgery developes signifficanly, exspeccialy in the last few years. Cardiac surgeons have to explore very advanced technics provading the new surgical treatment with less invasive and more "patient friendly" modalities. New methods of surgical treatment based on the actual balance beetwen science, enginering techniqe in the art of medical treatment are presented in the paper.