From Editor-in-Chief

Dear Readers

In this issue, we published the editorial about prominent surgeon, founder of cardiovascular surgery in Central Asia who performed first heart surgery – Professor Isa K. Akhunbaev. In every further issue of the journal in frame of the 60^th anniversary of cardiac surgery and 15^th anniversary of SRI of Heart Surgery and Organ Transplantation in Kyrgyzstan, we plan to publish interviews with surgeons, anesthesiologists and other specialists who were members of the first heart surgery team contributed to the development of cardiovascular surgery.

You can also find research article, interesting case report, quiz on electrophysiology, and reports on arrhythmia school in Bishkek and on research school in Baet, Issyk-Kul, we mentioned about this school in June issue.

We look forward for your articles, reviews, case reports and images, interviews and historical notes, articles on innovative methods. Your feedback in form of letters to the editor as readers is vitally important for us.

We updated aims and scope and instructions for authors. Our multidisciplinary journal will also consider for publication the articles having regional and international importance.

Gulmira Kudaiberdieva

Editor-in-Chief

Heart  Vessels and Transplantation

Peer-review: internal

Conflict of interest: None to declare

Authorship: G.K.

Acknowledgement and funding: None to declare