1Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Dr. Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey 2Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Dr. Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey 3Department of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hos...

The BJCVS currently has 13 volunteer Associate Editors who are striving to fit the requirements of the new submission system in addition to capturing articles in the respective areas: Advances in Cardiovascular Surgery, Diseases of the Aorta, Basic Research, Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiovascular Rehabilitation, Continuous Medical Education (CME), Congenital Diseases, Coronary Surgery, Transcat...

background: cardiovascular diseases have the highest death rates in human society. coronary artery disease is among the most important of these diseases. no treatment of cardiovascular disease has as much impact on the quality of life of the patients as the heart surgery. the recovery from heart surgery is associated with symptoms of pain and psychological distress. in the early recovery period...

background: statins (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutarylcoenzyme-a (hmg-coa) reductase inhibitors) decrease cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. this article reviews the role of perioperative statins in non cardiac surgery. methods: a literature review was done on all english published articles till february 2015 about this subject using pubmed. then the reference list of relevant articles was review...

Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery The Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Cardiovascular (SBCCV ) has taken great pleasure and pride in announcing that the Brazilian Registry of Cardiovascular Surgery in Adults (The Bypass Registry) is currently fully operational and the inclusion has exceeded 1500 patients in the first nine months of operation. This success is the aftermath of the serio...

a Cardiovascular Surgery Department, University Hospital (CHU, ULg) of Liège, Liège, Belgium b Center for Innovation and Outcomes Research, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA c Cardiovascular Surgery Department, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany d Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA e Department of Cardiovascul...

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is a versatile non-invasive imaging modality that serves a broad spectrum of indications in clinical cardiology and has proven evidence. Most of the numerous applications are appropriate in patients with previous cardiovascular surgery in the same manner as in non-surgical subjects. However, some specifics have to be considered. This review article is int...