Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Editors-in-Chief:

Prof Vipin Zamvar, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK

Prof David Taggart, John Radcliffe Hospital, UK

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Pre-operative serum VCAM-1 as a biomarker of atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting

Leanne Harling, Jonathan Lambert, Hutan Ashrafian, Ara Darzi, Nigel J. Gooderham and Thanos Athanasiou

Published on: 18 August 2017
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Assessment of the effect of left atrial cryoablation enhanced by ganglionated plexi ablation in the treatment of atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing open heart surgery

Jiří Bárta and Radim Brát

Published on: 17 August 2017
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Enumeration of circulating endothelial cell frequency as a diagnostic marker in aortic valve surgery - a flow cytometric approach

Anton Sabashnikov, Klaus Neef, Vera Chesnokova, Leonie Wegener, Kathrin Godthardt, Maximilian Scherner, Elmar W. Kuhn, Antje-Christin Deppe, Meike Lauer, Kaveh Eghbalzadeh, Mohamed Zeriouh, Parwis B. Rahmanian, Jens Wippermann, Ferdinand Kuhn-Régnier, Navid Madershahian, Thorsten Wahlers…

Published on: 9 August 2017
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30-year experience of Fontan surgery: single-centre’s data

Laurynas Bezuska, Virgilijus Lebetkevicius, Rita Sudikiene, Daina Liekiene and Virgilijus Tarutis

Published on: 9 August 2017
Case report

Life-threatening subdural hematoma after aortic valve replacement in a patient with Heyde syndrome: a case report

Tetsuro Uchida, Azumi Hamasaki, Eiichi Ohba, Atsushi Yamashita, Jun Hayashi and Mitsuaki Sadahiro

Published on: 8 August 2017

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Thoracoscopic plication for a huge thoracic meningocele in a patient with Neurofibromatosis

Heng-Chung Chen, Ping-Hsien Chang, Shang-Wun Jhang and Bing-Yen Wang

Published on: 13 May 2014
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Auditory stimulation of opera music induced prolongation of murine cardiac allograft survival and maintained generation of regulatory CD4⁺CD25⁺ cells

Masateru Uchiyama, Xiangyuan Jin, Qi Zhang, Toshihito Hirai, Atsushi Amano, Hisashi Bashuda and Masanori Niimi

Published on: 23 March 2012
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Comparison of two different mechanical esophagogastric anastomosis in esophageal cancer patients: a meta-analysis

Dong Zhou, Quan-Xing Liu, Xu-Feng Deng, Jia-Xin Min and Ji-Gang Dai

Published on: 8 May 2015
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Postoperative abdominal complications after cardiopulmonary bypass

Guohua Dong, Canhui Liu, Biao Xu, Hua Jing, Demin Li and Haiwei Wu

Published on: 9 October 2012
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Physiotherapy-supervised mobilization and exercise following cardiac surgery: a national questionnaire survey in Sweden

Elisabeth Westerdahl and Margareta Möller

Published on: 25 August 2010

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Featured article: High dose statins in patients waiting for cardiac surgery

Yie Roei Chee et al trialed high dose statin therapy in patients waiting for cardiopulmonary bypass surgery. The use of high dose preoperative statins resulted in evidence of lesser cardiac and renal damage.

Aims and scope

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery is an open access journal that encompasses all aspects of research in the field of cardiothoracic surgery. The journal publishes original scientific research documenting clinical and experimental advances in cardiac and thoracic surgery, and related fields. Topics of interest include surgical techniques, survival rates, surgical complications and their outcomes, pediatric conditions, transplantations and clinical trials.

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery is of interest to cardiothoracic surgeons, cardiothoracic anaesthesiologists, cardiologists, chest physicians, and allied health professionals.

Author's quote

“In the last three years, we have been increasingly using BioMed Central journals to present our work. This choice is based on a number of factors, including a streamlined online submission process, rigorous peer-review, open access, and relatively short time from submission to publication. As our experiences while publishing in BioMed Central journals such as Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery have been excellent, and the benefits of open access to our research are obvious, I intend to continue publishing much of our work through BioMed Central.”