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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.

2023 Annual Report of CDT

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

We are glad to present the 2023 Annual Report of CDT here. In 2023, CDT has made great progress under the join-efforts of experts worldwide. In 2023, the impact factor of CDT is 2.4. The yearly citations of CDT is 1873 in the past 2023. More information is shown in the Annual Report.

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Zhonghua Sun, Mauro Vaccarezza

PDF Pages: 459-461 Full Text (214) COI Form Open Access

Original Article

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Ruimin Dong, Xing Shui, Juan Zhang, Zhu Dun

PDF Pages: 462-477 Full Text (385) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Computer simulation help predict the frame deformation following a Venus-A transcatheter aortic valve implantation in patients with pure aortic regurgitation: a retrospective study

Feicheng Yu, Songzan Chen, Lili Tian, Xulin Hong, Bei Wang, Lili Wu, Yan Ma, Guosheng Fu

PDF Pages: 478-488 Full Text (245) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Reversal of heavy arterial calcification in a rat model of chronic kidney disease using targeted ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid-loaded albumin nanoparticles

Fatema Tuj Zohora, Shivani Arora, Alyssa Swiss, Naren Vyavahare

PDF Pages: 489-508 Full Text (418) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

The potential treatment of N-acetylcysteine as an antioxidant in the radiation-induced heart disease

Yan-Ling Li, Gang Wang, Bo-Wen Wang, Yong-Hong Li, Yong-Xia Ma, Yuan Huang, Wen-Ting Yan, Ping Xie

PDF Pages: 509-524 Full Text (418) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Surgical strategy and long-term outcomes of dissected carotid artery with false lumen thrombus in acute type A aortic dissection

Hongyuan Lin, Hongyan Zhou, Xiaoning Huo, Hongwei Guo, Yi Chang

PDF Pages: 525-536 Full Text (256) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Effects of meditation on health promoting protective factors of persons with cardiovascular disease—a quasi-experimental pilot study with pre-post comparison

Katharina Weiss, Christian Mahnkopf, Niko Kohls

PDF Pages: 537-546 Full Text (381) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Machine learning prediction of no reflow in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention

Lin Wang, Pei Bao, Xiaochen Wang, Banglong Xu, Zeyan Liu, Guangquan Hu

PDF Pages: 547-562 Full Text (244) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Preoperative right ventricular longitudinal strain as a prognosticator of postoperative residual or recurrent tricuspid regurgitation in Ebstein anomaly: a cardiovascular magnetic resonance study

Xiahui Tian, Yuelong Yang, Xinyi Luo, Liqi Cao, Xiaobing Zhou, Huanwen Xu, Rui Chen, Ruohong Luo, Hui Liu

PDF Pages: 563-575 Full Text (294) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Magnoflorine attenuates Ang II-induced cardiac remodeling via promoting AMPK-regulated autophagy

Meili Zhu, Jiangbiao Hu, Yifan Pan, Qian Jiang, Chang Shu

PDF Pages: 576-588 Full Text (376) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Quadratic stratification of left ventricular hypertrophy and association with mitral insufficiency grading: a retrospective study using cardiac magnetic resonance

Monisha Ghosh Srabanti, Julio Garcia

PDF Pages: 589-608 Full Text (303) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Gender-related differences in left atrial strain mechanics and exercise capacity in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a propensity-score matched study from the Cleveland Clinic

Bo Xu, Yoshihito Saijo, Nicholas G. Smedira, Erik Van Iterson, Maran Thamilarasan, Zoran B. Popović, Milind Y. Desai

PDF Pages: 609-620 Full Text (283) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Association of serum cystatin C level and major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with percutaneous coronary intervention

Zhibin Xiao, Aoge Riletu, Xiaoyu Yan, Qi Meng, Weiru Zhang, Na Zhang, Chi Ma, Xin Guo, Jiatong Han, Huijuan Nie, Hui Deng, Jing Liu, Jianping Chen, Yu Dong, Tianlong Liu

PDF Pages: 621-629 Full Text (265) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Safety, effectiveness, and complications of the first-in-human minimally invasive transthoracic ventricular septal defect closure using a bioabsorbable occluder: a cohort study with 12-month follow-up

Qiang Zhang, Jing Zhou, Shanliang Zhu, Hao Liu, Yu Mao, Ying Tang, Xuming Mo, Jun Chen

PDF Pages: 630-641 Full Text (267) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Impact of body mass index on repeat coronary revascularization rates in patients with LDL-C below 55 mg/dL and LDL-C below 70 mg/dL: a 42-month cohort study in Korea

Chang-Yeon Kim, Jae Yong Lee, Hae Won Jung

PDF Pages: 642-654 Full Text (207) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Performance of artificial intelligence in detecting the chronic total occlusive lesions of coronary artery based on coronary computed tomographic angiography

Yanying Yang, Zhen Zhou, Nan Zhang, Rui Wang, Yifeng Gao, Xiaowei Ran, Zhonghua Sun, Heye Zhang, Guang Yang, Xiantao Song, Lei Xu

PDF Pages: 655-667 Full Text (262) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Age-related wall shear stress changes assessed by vascular vector flow mapping in the carotid arteries of healthy adults: a cross-sectional study

Lan He, Yundan Cai, Yuhong Feng, Tienan Feng, Filippo Cademartiri, E Shen

PDF Pages: 668-678 Full Text (314) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Review Article

Therapeutic agents for steroid-refractory immune checkpoint inhibitor-related myocarditis: a narrative review

Yang Wang, Shouchao Li, He Shi, Xue Guan, Qiang Wei, Dazhong Chen

PDF Pages: 679-697 Full Text (500) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Technical principles, benefits, challenges, and applications of photon counting computed tomography in coronary imaging: a narrative review

Antonella Meloni, Erica Maffei, Vincenzo Positano, Alberto Clemente, Carmelo De Gori, Sergio Berti, Ludovico La Grutta, Luca Saba, Eduardo Bossone, Cesare Mantini, Carlo Cavaliere, Bruna Punzo, Simona Celi, Filippo Cademartiri

PDF Pages: 698-724 Full Text (362) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Brief Report

Prevalence and burden of coronary artery disease on computed tomography coronary angiography and its correlation with high-density lipoprotein in the Northern Territory, Australia

Angus A. W. Baumann, Ross L. Roberts-Thomson, Rushab Shah, Guy F. Reynolds, James Marangou, Hussam Tayeb, Peter J. Psaltis, Alex Brown, Dennis Wong, Nadarajah Kangaharan, Marcus Ilton

PDF Pages: 725-730 Full Text (355) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Images in Clinical Medicine

Dilated phenotype of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: cardiac magnetic resonance assessment and 9-year follow-up

Xi Jia, Xiaorui Xiang, Kai Yang, Shihua Zhao

PDF Pages: 731-734 Full Text (230) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Sub-acute stent thrombosis in a bifurcation lesion: the devil is in the details

Andreas Y. Andreou

PDF Pages: 735-739 Full Text (180) Peer Review File 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 (95912) Chinese (4382) Open Access

Review Article

Pulmonary vascular anatomy & anatomical variants

Asha Kandathil, Murthy Chamarthy

Published online: 27 June 2018

PDF Pages: 201-207 Full Text (90681) 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 (79916) Chinese (3850) Open Access

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

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Robert H. G. Schwinger

Published online: 26 February 2021

PDF Pages: 263-276 Full Text (76068) COI Form 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 (68612) 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 (66448) Chinese (4202) 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 (64741) Chinese (4548) Open Access

Review Article

The coronary slow flow phenomenon: characteristics, mechanisms and implications

Xiao Wang, Shao-Ping Nie

Published online: 09 December 2011

PDF Pages: 37-43 Full Text (Video) (54372) Chinese (3888) Open Access

Original Article

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

Published online: 30 October 2014

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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 (44297) Chinese (4502) 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 (41444) 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) (35907) 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 (35071) Chinese (3548) 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) (34282) Chinese (4371) 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 (28992) Chinese (4027) 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 (28424) Chinese (2783) 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 (28380) 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 (28172) Chinese (3319) Open Access

Non-invasive Cardiovascular Imaging

Post myocardial infarction of the left ventricle: The course ahead seen by cardiac MRI

Pier Giorgio Masci, Jan Bogaert

Published online: 27 June 2012

PDF Pages: 113-127 Full Text (27709) Chinese (6243) 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 (27600) Open Access

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

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Review Article

Hypoxamirs in pulmonary hypertension: breathing new life into pulmonary vascular research

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

Antonio Carlos Campos de Carvalho, Adriana Bastos Carvalho, Debora Bastos Mello, Regina Coeli dos Santos Goldenberg

Imaging in the context of replacement heart valve development: Use of the Visible Heart® methodologies

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Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging: fundamentals and application to the evaluation of the peripheral perfusion

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4D flow imaging with MRI

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Review of MRI-based measurements of pulse wave velocity: a biomarker of arterial stiffness

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Editorial

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Fractional flow reserve measurements to identify justified targets for PCI in patients with stable angina: FAME 2 and beyond

Frits H.A.F. de Man, Clemens von Birgelen

Brief Report

Correlates of objectively measured physical activity in cardiac patients

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African experiences of humanitarian cardiovascular medicine: A Kenyan perspective

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Left ventricular energy model predicts adverse events in women with suspected myocardial ischemia: results from the NHLBI-sponsored women’s ischemia syndrome evaluation (WISE) study

Mark Doyle, Nicole Weinberg, Gerald M. Pohost, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Leslee J. Shaw, George Sopko, Anthon Fuisz, William J. Rogers, Edward G. Walsh, B. Delia Johnson, Barry L. Sharaf, Carl J. Pepine, Sunil Mankad, Steven E. Reis, Geetha Rayarao, Diane A. Vido, Vera Bittner, Lindsey Tauxe, Marian B. Olson, Sheryl F. Kelsey, Robert WW Biederman

Cardiac risk factors and myocardial perfusion reserve in women with microvascular coronary dysfunction

Megha Agarwal, Chrisandra Shufelt, Puja K. Mehta, Edward Gill, Daniel S. Berman, Debiao Li, Behzad Sharif, Ning Li, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Louise E.J. Thomson

Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging myocardial perfusion reserve index assessment in women with microvascular coronary dysfunction and reference controls

Chrisandra L. Shufelt, Louise E. J. Thomson, Pavel Goykhman, Megha Agarwal, Puja K. Mehta, Tara Sedlak, Ning Li, Edward Gill, Bruce Samuels, Babak Azabal, Saibal Kar, Kamlesh Kothawade, Margo Minissian, Piotr Slomka, Daniel S. Berman, C. Noel Bairey Merz

Improved diagnosis and prognosis using Decisions Informed by Combining Entities (DICE): results from the NHLBI-sponsored Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE)

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Original Article

Number of attempts and interventions to obtain a valid pulmonary artery wedge pressure

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Published online: 24 September 2024

Review Article

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Published online: 24 September 2024

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Journal Highlight more

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.