THE JOURNAL OF CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY

Hybrid journal

Indexed/Abstracted in: BIOSIS Previews, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, EMBASE, PubMed/MEDLINE, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Scopus
Impact Factor 1.4 (2023)

Bi-Monthly

pISSN 0021-9509

eISSN 1827-191X

EDITORIAL BOARD

Chief Editor

Nikolaos Tsilimparis
Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany

Assistant Editor

Enrico Gallitto
IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria, Bologna, Italy

Ryan Gouveia e Melo
Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal

Athanasios Katsargyris
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

Erben Young
Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Associate Editors Vascular and Endovascular Section

Gustavo Oderich
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA

Santi Trimarchi
Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy

Editorial Board

Vascular and Endovascular Section

Michele Antonello
University of Padua, Padua, Italy

Enrico Ascher
Vascular Institute of New York, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Gianni Belcaro
Irvine3 Circulation/Vascular Labs, Chieti-PE, Italy

Colin D. Bicknell
St Mary’s Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK

Marc Bosiers
AZ St-Blasius, Dendermonde, Belgium

Ludovic Canaud
Arnaud de Villeneuve Hospital, Montpellier, France

Nick Cheshire
Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK

Roberto Chiesa
Vita-Salute University, Scientific Institute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy

Lazar Davidovic
Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

Koen Deloose
A.Z. St-Blasius Hospital, Dendermonde, Belgium

Jean-Paul P. M. De Vries
University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

Konstantinos P. Donas
Asklepios Clinic Langen, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Gianluca Faggioli
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Ciro Ferrer
Azienda Ospedaliera San Giovanni Addolorata, Rome, Italy

Sukgu M. Han
Keck Medical Center of University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

Stéphan Haulon
Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Le Plessis Robinson, Université Paris Sud, France

Michael J. Jacobs
University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Konstantinos Katsanos
Patras University Hospital, Rion, Greece

Tilo Kölbel
University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Dainis K. Krievins
P. Stradina Clinical University Hospital, Riga, Latvia

Mario Lachat
Klinik Hirslanden, Zurich, Switzerland

Rafael D. Malgor
The University of Colorado, Denver, Colorado, USA

Kevin Mani
Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden

Ross Milner
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Jean M. Panneton
Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Juan Carlos Parodi
Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

Gabriele Piffaretti
University of Insubria School of Medicine, Varese, Italy

Carlo Pratesi
University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Giovanni Pratesi
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

Sonia Ronchey
San Filippo Neri Hospital, Rome, Italy

Eric E. Roselli
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Maria Antonella Ruffino
EOC - Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Lugano, Switzerland

Dierk Scheinert
University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

Carlo Setacci
University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Gunnar Tepe
Klinikum Rosenheim, Rosenheim, Germany

Ramesh K. Tripathi
University of the Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, Australia

Nicola Troisi
Pisa University Hospital, Pisa, Italy

Konstantinos Tsagakis
University Hospital, Cologne, Germany

Yamume Tshomba
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Gemelli IRCCS - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Jos C. Van Den Berg
Centro Vascolare Ticino, Ospedale Regionale di Lugano, Lugano, Switzerland

Marc R. Van Sambeek
Catharina Hospital, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Ramon L. Varcoe
Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney, Australia

Gianfranco Varetto
University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Cardiac Section

Mohamad Bashir
Neurovascular Research Laboratory, Faculty of Sciences and Education, Cardiff, UK

Thierry Carrel
University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Michel Carrier
Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Canada

Ralph J. Damiano
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Nicolas Doll
Sana Heartcenter, Stuttgart, Germany

Ted E. Feldman
Evanston Hospital Northshore, Evanston, Illinois, USA

Bartley P. Griffith
Division of Cardiac Surgery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Reiner Korfer
Klinikum Niederrhein, Duisburg, Germany

Toru Kuratani
Osaka University Graduate School Of Medicine, Osaka, Japan

Igor E. Konstantinov
Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

Thomas Modine
CHRU Lille, Lille, France

Marc R. Moon
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Christoph A. Nienaber
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK

Luc Noyez
University Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Davide Pacini
University of Bologna, Bologna Italy

John Pepper
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK

Hartzell V. Schaff
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Stephan Schueler
Newcastle upon Tyne Freeman Hospital, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

Matthias Siepe
University Heart Centre, Freiburg, Germany

Matthias Thielmann
University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

Olaf Wendler
King’s College Hospital, London, UK

Consulting Editor

Frank Veith
The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Past Chief Editors

Fabio Verzini
University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Lucien Castellani
Tours, France

Managing Editor

Alberto Oliaro
University of Turin, Turin, Italy