Editorial

From Editor-in-chief:  From Editor-in-chief:  Our issue, journal`s performance and indexing, new  trials, guidelines and consensus documents,  long COVID

Gulmira Kudaiberdieva

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Editorial

Editorial comment on “A practical guideline for performing a comprehensive transthoracic echocardiogram in the congenital heart disease patient” 2022 British Society of Echocardiography

Ilke Zehra Akyıldız, Oben Baysan, Izmir, Ankara, Turkey

Invited Editorial

Anesthetic management of pregnant patients with cardiovascular disease: a commentary on the 2023 American Heart Association (AHA) scientific statement

Francesca Romana Zimatore, Annachiara Pingitore, Stefano Cacciatore, Francesco Perone, Matteo Betti, Martina Leonetti, Luigi Spadafora, Milan, Rome, Italy

Invited Editorial

Multidisciplinary Care for Patients with Cardiac Amyloidosis: a Lesson from the 2023 American College of Cardiology Expert Consensus

Carla Recupero, Stefano Cacciatore, Marco Bernardi, Anna Maria Martone, Francesco Landi, Rome, Italy

Original Research

Effect of percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty on left ventricular function in rheumatic mitral stenosis

Gaurav Singh, Jayesh Prajapat, Rujuta Parikh, Kamal Sharma, Iva Patel, Ashish Mishra, Lalan Singh, Utsav Patel, Jaykumar Vadodariya, Ahmedabad, Gujarat,  Rewa,  India

Invited Editorial

 Percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty in rheumatic mitral stenosis: the earlier the merrier?

Theodora Metsovitis,  Beatrice Fresch, Marco Bernardi, Francesco Perone, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Caserta, Rome, Italy

Original Research

Superior vena cava syndrome and pacemaker leads. Explant by mechanical dissection system of extraction and percutaneous recanalization with stents for new device implantation

Elkin Gonzalez Villegas, Joan Novo Torres, Enrique Jose Balbacid Domingo, Maria Dolores Ponce Dorrego,  Jose Ignacio Juarez del Rio, Ulises Ramirez Valdiris, Jose Carlos Romero Carmona, Isabel Franco Fernandez, Rafael Peinado Peinado, Madrid, Spain

Original Research

Long-term tendency and risk factors for stroke in Bishkek

Mirgul B. Yrysova, Keneshbek B. Yrysov, Tatyna T. Samudinova, Rakhat I. Toichibaeva, Omor T. Kasymov, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Invited Review

Heart valve disease gender difference  in the era of transcatheter treatment 

Cristina Aurigemma, Francesco Burzotta, Carlo Trani, Rome, Italy  

Case Report

Simultaneous pectus excavatum repair using sternal plate in a patient undergoing the Bentall procedure

Mehmet Tugrul Goncu, Arda Aybars Pala,  Sadik Ahmet Sunbul,                Mesut Engin, Ahmet Burak Tatli, Ibrahim Burak Seker, Bursa, Turkiye

Case Report

A case report: A severe juxta-ductal coarctation of aorta with post coarctation aortic aneurysm

Kush Bhatt, Utkarsh Sanghavi, Devvrat Desai,  Jignesh Kothari, Ahmedabad, India

Case Report

Recovery of baseline renal function after treatment for prolonged in-stent artery thrombosis, in a COVID-19 positive patient: a case report

Fabio Massimo Oddi, Bernardo Orellana D., Mauro Fresilli, Daniele Morosetti, Arnaldo Ippoliti, Rome, Italy

Quiz

Quiz - Cardiac surgery: Congenital heart diseases

Kuat Abzaliev, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Historical note

How Vivien Thomas changed medicine and became a symbol of fighting racism in science: His contribution  to the  treatment of Tetralogy of Fallot    

 Iryna Tehlivets, Lviv, Ukraine

Historical note

Vivien T. Thomas, the pioneering lab assistant who revolutionized congenital heart disease surgery

Natalia Ceneda, Salvatore Giordano, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Marco Bernardi, Rome, Catanzaro, Italy