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2024 Annual Report of CDT

Greetings from Prof. Paul Schoenhagen and Editorial Office of CDT!

We are glad to present the 2024 Annual Report of CDT here. In 2024, CDT has made great progress under the join-efforts of experts worldwide. In 2024, the impact factor of CDT is 2.1. The yearly citations of CDT is 2414 in the past 2024. More information is shown in the Annual Report.

Interviews with Editorial Board Members

CDT features a distinguished editorial board, the members of which continue to instill the power of their expertise for the journal’s development. By launching this column, we are glad to introduce to you some of them in the form of interviews, in which they will share their unique career experiences and perspectives. We believe their insights will shed light on the knowledge of related fields.

Interviews with Outstanding Authors (2024)

In 2024, many CDT authors make outstanding contributions to our journal. Their articles published with us have received very well feedback in the field and stimulate a lot of discussions and new insights among the peers.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding authors who have been making immense efforts in their research fields, with a brief interview of their unique perspective and insightful view as authors.

New Impact Factor for Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy : 2.1

We are pleased to announce that Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy (CDT) has attained its latest impact factor update for the 2023 citation year: 2.1.

We strive to follow the best practices in publishing. The announcement of the journal’s latest impact factor is not only a significant achievement for the journal but also strengthens our commitment to further advance our journal. We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all our Editorial Team Members, Guest Editors, authors, reviewers and readers for their significant contributions.

Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy 2023 CiteScore Released: 4.9

We are pleased to announce that the Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy (CDT) has received its 2023 CiteScore: 4.9, ranking 124 out of 387 journals in the Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine category.

Furthermore, we are delighted to highlight the remarkable achievements made by all AME journals in the CiteScore ranking.

Reviewer of the Month (2024)

In 2024, CDT reviewers continue to make outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.

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Editorial Commentary

Sirolimus-coated balloons for peripheral arterial disease: walking free into the future of endovascular treatment

Riccardo M. Fumagalli, Stefano Barco

PDF Pages: 987-990 Full Text (156) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Early and late outcomes after Cardioband procedure in patients with atrial and non-atrial functional tricuspid regurgitation

Piera Ciaramella, Francesco Candido, Marco Russo, Antonio Giovanni Cammardella, Amedeo Pergolini, Federico Ranocchi

PDF Pages: 991-993 Full Text (130) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Procedural success prediction in chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention (CTO-PCI)—the rise of the machines?

Claudiu Ungureanu, Gregor Leibundgut

PDF Pages: 994-997 Full Text (105) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Let us pay more attention to performing coronary function assessment for multivessels!

Hiroki Teragawa, Chikage Oshita, Yu Hashimoto

PDF Pages: 998-1002 Full Text (116) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

The best devices for superficial femoral artery, with “limited” cases and vessel preparations

Norihito Nakamura, Manabu Shiozaki, Sho Torii

PDF Pages: 1003-1006 Full Text (184) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Machine learning paving the way for successful antegrade crossing of total chronic coronary occlusions

Philipp Breitbart, Dirk Westermann, Grigorios Korosoglou

PDF Pages: 1007-1010 Full Text (195) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Randomized trial comparing a stent-avoiding with a stent-preferred strategy in complex femoropopliteal lesions

Gemmi Sufali, Martin Teraa

PDF Pages: 1011-1014 Full Text (123) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Sirolimus coated balloon for the treatment of femoropopliteal lesions: the new kid on the block is getting older ‘step by step’

Konstantinos P. Donas, Christos Rammos, Grigorios Korosoglou

PDF Pages: 1015-1019 Full Text (133) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Prolonged pre-catheterization fasting: do the risks outweigh the benefits?

Anand Shah, George A. Stouffer

PDF Pages: 1020-1024 Full Text (97) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Superiority of coronary paclitaxel DCBs to limus DCBs in the late angiographic outcomes: the first meta-analysis showing the differences of coronary DCBs

Kota Yamada, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Yohei Tamura, Isao Taguchi

PDF Pages: 1025-1028 Full Text (91) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Original Article

A computer vision model for the identification and scoring of calcium in aortic valve stenosis: a single-center experience

Tibor Poruban, Dominik Pella, Ingrid Schusterova, Marta Jakubova, Karolina Angela Sieradzka Uchnar, Marianna Barbierik Vachalcova

PDF Pages: 1029-1037 Full Text (145) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography-derived deformation analysis of the morphologic left ventricle in adults with corrected dextro-transposition of the great arteries—insights from the CSONGRAD Registry and MAGYAR-Path Study

Árpád Kormányos, Nándor Gyenes, Zoltán Ruzsa, Alexandru Achim, Nóra Ambrus, Kálmán Havasi, Máté Vámos, Tamás Szili-Török, Csaba Lengyel, Attila Nemes

PDF Pages: 1038-1047 Full Text (135) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

The clinical diagnostic value of right-to-left shunt in cryptogenic stroke under right heart contrast echocardiography: a retrospective case-control study

Changyin Gao, Yanjie Liu, Dong Xu

PDF Pages: 1048-1057 Full Text (188) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Pregnancy & cardiovascular disease: the PREG-CVD-HH registry

Dora Csengeri, Elisabeth Unger, Jessica Weimann, Michael Huntgeburth, Yskert von Kodolitsch, Tanja Zeller, Stefan Blankenberg, Paulus Kirchhof, Anke Diemert, Renate B. Schnabel, Christoph R. Sinning, Elvin Zengin-Sahm

PDF Pages: 1058-1069 Full Text (263) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Reporting quality of animal research in journals that published the ARRIVE 1.0 or ARRIVE 2.0 guidelines: a cross-sectional analysis of 943 studies

Yao Lin, Fanghui Yang, Binghan Shang, John E. Speich, Yu-Jui Yvonne Wan, Hiroki Hashida, Tobias Braun, Ali Sadoughi, Thomas Puehler, Tom F. Lue, Kaiping Zhang

PDF Pages: 1070-1082 Full Text (147) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Automated volumetry of core and peel intrapulmonary vasculature on computed tomography angiography for non-invasive estimation of hemodynamics in patients with pulmonary hypertension (2022 updated hemodynamic definition)

Claudius Melzig, Oliver Weinheimer, Benjamin Egenlauf, Thuy D. Do, Mark O. Wielpütz, Ekkehard Grünig, Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Claus Peter Heussel, Fabian Rengier

PDF Pages: 1083-1095 Full Text (164) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Influence of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors on the triglyceride-glucose index in acute myocardial infarction patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus

Kai Wang, Tingting Fan, Fei He, Haoliang Li, Yu Fang, Guangquan Hu, Xiaochen Wang

PDF Pages: 1096-1107 Full Text (234) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Twins with at least one with CHD and their immunisation status in direct comparison—are both twins complying with the German immunisation recommendations?

Julia Remmele, Paul C. Helm, Jia Li, Renate Oberhoffer-Fritz, Ulrike M. M. Bauer, Peter Ewert

PDF Pages: 1108-1121 Full Text (203) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

The Cleveland Clinic experience of eosinophilic myocarditis in the setting of hypereosinophilic syndrome: demographics, cardiac imaging, and outcomes

Matthew Reeder, Yuichiro Okushi, Saberio Lo Presti Vega, Rohan Prasad, Richard A. Grimm, Brian P. Griffin, Bo Xu

PDF Pages: 1122-1133 Full Text (159) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Evaluation of myocardial perfusion imaging techniques and artificial intelligence (AI) tools in coronary artery disease (CAD) diagnosis through multi-criteria decision-making method

Hasan Erdagli, Dilber Uzun Ozsahin, Berna Uzun

PDF Pages: 1134-1147 Full Text (142) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Predictive models of in-hospital deterioration of Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention shock stage in patients with acute myocardial infarction initially presenting with stable hemodynamic condition

Takuto Mukaida, Yu Kataoka, Kota Murai, Kenichiro Sawada, Takamasa Iwai, Hideo Matama, Satoshi Honda, Masashi Fujino, Shuichi Yoneda, Kensuke Takagi, Kazuhiro Nakao, Fumiyuki Otsuka, Yoshio Tahara, Yasuhide Asaumi, Teruo Noguchi

PDF Pages: 1148-1160 Full Text (129) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Review Article

Impact of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in single ventricle physiology: a narrative review

Inga Voges, Dominik Daniel Gabbert, Daniela Panakova, Sylvia Krupickova

PDF Pages: 1161-1175 Full Text (171) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Greater than the sum of its parts: multimodality imaging in adults with congenital heart disease

Nicholas Szugye

PDF Pages: 1176-1185 Full Text (166) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Interlinking pathways: a narrative review on the role of IL-6 in cancer and atherosclerosis

Riccardo Cau, Luca Saba

PDF Pages: 1186-1201 Full Text (190) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Energy loss and adults with congenital heart disease: a novel marker of cardiac workload beyond right ventricular size

Yumi Shiina, Keiichi Itatani, Kei Inai, Koichiro Niwa

PDF Pages: 1202-1209 Full Text (148) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Challenges in clinical translation of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging radiomics in non-ischemic cardiomyopathy: a narrative review

Jia Deng, Langtao Zhou, Bihong Liao, Qinxi Cai, Guanghua Luo, Hong Zhou, Huifang Tang

PDF Pages: 1210-1227 Full Text (154) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Aortopathy in repaired tetralogy of Fallot and David procedure

Naoko Ichikawa, Yumi Shiina, Kohei Abe, Koichiro Niwa

PDF Pages: 1228-1235 Full Text (120) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Study Protocol

Assessing the impact of evolocumab on thin-cap fibroatheroma and endothelial function in patients with very high-risk atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Bingyu Gao, Nan Nan, Mingduo Zhang, Jinfan Tian, Yanlong Ren, Yuguo Xue, Min Zhang, Xiantao Song, Changjiang Ge

PDF Pages: 1236-1246 Full Text (240) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Review Article on Heart Failure in the Young and Old: Insights into Various Therapies

Pathophysiology of heart failure

Robert H. G. Schwinger

Published online: 26 February 2021

PDF Pages: 263-276 Full Text (97760) COI Form Open Access

Review Article

Cardiac rehabilitation past, present and future: an overview

Warner M. Mampuya

Published online: 22 March 2012

PDF Pages: 38-49 Full Text (96647) Chinese (4453) Open Access

Review Article

Pulmonary vascular anatomy & anatomical variants

Asha Kandathil, Murthy Chamarthy

Published online: 27 June 2018

PDF Pages: 201-207 Full Text (95324) Open Access

Editorial

Grading aortic stenosis severity when the flow modifies the gradientvalve area correlation

Patrizio Lancellotti

Published online: 22 March 2012

PDF Pages: 6-9 Full Text (80450) Chinese (3947) Open Access

Review Article

Deep vein thrombosis: pathogenesis, diagnosis, and medical management

Jonathan Stone, Patrick Hangge, Hassan Albadawi, Alex Wallace, Fadi Shamoun, M. Grace Knuttien, Sailendra Naidu, Rahmi Oklu

Published online: 21 December 2017

PDF Pages: S276-S284 Full Text (78200) Open Access

Review Article

Low gradient "severe" aortic stenosis with preserved left ventricular ojection fraction

Alper Ozkan

Published online: 22 March 2012

PDF Pages: 19-27 Full Text (67267) Chinese (4278) Open Access

Non-invasive Cardiovascular Imaging

Coronary artery calcium scoring, what is answered and what questions remain

George Youssef, Matthew J. Budoff

Published online: 27 June 2012

PDF Pages: 94-105 Full Text (65759) Chinese (4778) Open Access

Review Article

The coronary slow flow phenomenon: characteristics, mechanisms and implications

Xiao Wang, Shao-Ping Nie

Published online: 09 December 2011

Full Text (Video) (55643) PDF Pages: 37-43 Chinese (4008) Open Access

Original Article

Vegetarian diets and glycemic control in diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Yoko Yokoyama, Neal D. Barnard, Susan M. Levin, Mitsuhiro Watanabe

Published online: 30 October 2014

PDF Pages: 373-382 Full Text (51587) Chinese (11152) Open Access

Review Article

Imaging of acute pulmonary embolism: an update

Alastair J. E. Moore, Jason Wachsmann, Murthy R. Chamarthy, Lloyd Panjikaran, Yuki Tanabe, Prabhakar Rajiah

Published online: 27 June 2018

PDF Pages: 225-243 Full Text (46764) Open Access

Review Article

Echocardiographic Guidance for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Percutaneous Procedures

Cam Tu Nguyen, Eunice Lee, Huai Luo, Robert J Siegel

Published online: 09 December 2011

PDF Pages: 11-36 Full Text (44553) Chinese (4563) Open Access

Review Article

4D flow imaging with MRI

Zoran Stankovic, Bradley D. Allen, Julio Garcia, Kelly B. Jarvis, Michael Markl

Published online: 23 April 2014

PDF Pages: 173-192 Full Text (Video) (37420) Open Access

Review Article

Cardiac biomarkers: New tools for heart failure management

Navaid Iqbal, Bailey Wentworth, Rajiv Choudhary, Alejandro De La Parra Landa, Benjamin Kipper, Arrash Fard, Alan S. Maisel

Published online: 27 June 2012

PDF Pages: 147-164 Full Text (35471) Chinese (3679) Open Access

Review Article

Computed tomography in the evaluation for transcatheter aortic valve implantation

Paul Schoenhagen, Jörg Hausleiter, Stephan Achenbach, Milind Y. Desai, E. Murat Tuzcu

Published online: 09 December 2011

PDF Pages: 44-56 Full Text (Video) (34627) Chinese (4448) Open Access

Review Article on Impact of Cardiac CT in Clinical Practice

Cardiac CT angiography: normal and pathological anatomical features—a narrative review

Alberto Clemente, Sara Seitun, Cesare Mantini, Giovanni Gentile, Duccio Federici, Andrea Barison, Andrea Rossi, Magdalena Cuman, Alessandra Pizzuto, Lamia Ait-Ali, Eduardo Bossone, Filippo Cademartiri, Dante Chiappino

Published online: 17 December 2020

PDF Pages: 1918-1945 Full Text (32136) Reporting Checklist COI Form Open Access

Original Article

Type 2 versus type 1 myocardial infarction: a comparison of clinical characteristics and outcomes with a meta-analysis of observational studies

Sonu Gupta, Satyanarayana R. Vaidya, Sameer Arora, Amol Bahekar, Santhosh R. Devarapally

Published online: 29 August 2017

PDF Pages: 348-358 Full Text (31483) Open Access

Review Article

Congenital anomalies of the aortic arch

Sarv Priya, Richard Thomas, Prashant Nagpal, Arun Sharma, Michael Steigner

Published online: 13 April 2018

PDF Pages: S26-S44 Full Text (29948) Open Access

Review Article

Coronary CT angiography with prospective ECG-triggering: an effective alternative to invasive coronary angiography

Zhonghua Sun

Published online: 22 March 2012

PDF Pages: 28-37 Full Text (29419) Chinese (4167) Open Access

Original Article

Risk factors of prolonged mechanical ventilation following open heart surgery: what has changed over the last decade?

Muhammad-Mujtaba Ali Siddiqui, Iftikhar Paras, Anjum Jalal

Published online: 05 September 2012

PDF Pages: 192-199 Full Text (28734) Chinese (2842) Open Access

Review Articles

Aortic regurgitation after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: mechanisms and implications

Barbara E. Stähli, Willibald Maier, Roberto Corti, Thomas F. Lüscher, Rolf Jenni, Felix C. Tanner

Published online: 05 March 2013

PDF Pages: 15-22 Full Text (28651) Chinese (3421) Open Access

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Life span of patients with Eisenmenger syndrome is not superior to that of patients with other causes of pulmonary hypertension

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Vegetarian diets and glycemic control in diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Review Article

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Bone marrow-derived cell therapy in chagasic cardiac disease: a review of pre-clinical and clinical results

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Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy (CDT) is an open access, peer-reviewed, international English-language journal indexed by PubMed/PubMed Central and Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). The journal publishes manuscripts that describe novel findings in the diagnosis and therapy of cardiovascular diseases including contributions related to clinical cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, public heath, nursing, sociology, human genetics, basic sciences, education, and the environment.