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Readers' Choice: Author Interview with Dr. Robert H. G. Schwinger

Welcome to Readers’ Choice: Author Interviews, our exclusive interview series where we connect with the authors behind the most-read papers published in our journal. In each feature, we dive into the inspiration, challenges, and discoveries that have captured the attention of our readers. Through these interviews, we aim to provide our readers with deeper insights into the work that is shaping the future of cardiovascular diagnosis and therapy.

Interviews with Outstanding Authors (2025)

In 2025, 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.

Reviewer of the Month (2025)

In 2025, 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.

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.

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.

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Editorial Commentary

Functional tricuspid regurgitation: is prognosis mostly driven by phenotype or severity?

Julien Dreyfus, David Messika-Zeitoun

PDF Pages: 273-276 Full Text (80) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Original Article

Development of peripheral biomarker-based prognostic nomograms for short-term and long-term survival in immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated myocarditis

Zhengkun Guan, Tiezhu Yao, Guang Liu, Jing Liu, Ling Guo, Shaoyan Du, Zhenli Li, Ruipu Gao, Yansong Wang, Jingtao Ma

PDF Pages: 277-290 Full Text (114) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Effectiveness of intravenous administration of a combination of sufentanil and esketamine on post-cardiac surgery pain management and depression: a randomized controlled trial

Sen Xu, Tianyu Liang, Weicai Xu

PDF Pages: 291-301 Full Text (92) Reporting Checklist Trial Protocol Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

LncRNA-5829: a novel inhibitor of cardiac fibrosis

Xinyue Zhang, Yuanyuan Du, Jiaonan Xu, Wenhao Zhang, Xiaohui Wen, Tong Zhou, Hong Hong, Rongchao Cheng, Rong Zhang

PDF Pages: 302-317 Full Text (75) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Development and validation of a prognostic model for early mortality risk in patients with fulminant myocarditis

Jingjing Zhang, Chuanyu Gao, Jing Zhang, Famin Ye, Suping Guo

PDF Pages: 318-335 Full Text (73) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Initial outcomes of novel guideline-directed pharmacotherapy for systemic right heart failure in adults with congenital heart disease

Ann-Kristin Lassen, Yevheniia Artemenko, Michael Jerosch-Herold, Ines Kowalewski, Jakob Olfe, Arash Kheradvar, Tobias Giertzsch, Christoph Robert Sinning, Thomas S. Mir, Goetz Christoph Mueller, Carsten Rickers

PDF Pages: 336-349 Full Text (97) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

“Real world” medical care of patients with Fabry disease by primary care physicians, internists or general practitioners

Oliver Mayer, Harald Kaemmerer, Peter Ewert, Annika Freiberger, Florian B. Lagler, Claudia Regenbogen, Teresa Trenkwalder, Fabian von Scheidt, Christine Kurschat, Sebastian Freilinger

PDF Pages: 350-361 Full Text (89) Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Investigating the causal relationship between genetically determined metabolites and ischemic stroke functional outcomes: a Mendelian randomization study

Xiaobei Zhang, Gehong Liang, Ying Zheng, Xiaokun Wang, Weihao Luo, Guiyue Wang, Yiqing Yin

PDF Pages: 362-374 Full Text (70) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Non-invasive tissue characterization in children and young adults with aortic coarctation—an MRI-based prospective study

Tobias Giertzsch, Michael Jerosch-Herold, Philipp Schneider, Inga Voges, Dominik Daniel Gabbert, Philip Wegner, Götz Müller, Tilo Kölbel, Ida Hüners, Jörg Siegmar Sachweh, Michael Hübler, Jochen Herrmann, Sophie Alt, Anne Schöber, Inka Ristow, Gerhard Adam, Gunnar K. Lund, Carsten Rickers

PDF Pages: 375-387 Full Text (62) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Assessment of left ventricular systolic function using pressure-strain loops in offspring of women with gestational diabetes mellitus: a prospective cohort study

Xu-Feng Cao, Li-Li Su, Ying-Chao Fan, Jun Li, Ning Zhang, Hai-Yan Niu, Rui-Fang Wang, Hui-Fang Liu

PDF Pages: 388-397 Full Text (50) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Beta-blockers in post-myocardial infarction with preserved ejection fraction: systematic review and meta-analysis

Rafael Alessandro Ferreira Gomes, Ludmila Cristina Camilo Furtado, Marcela Vasconcelos Montenegro, Dário Celestino Sobral Filho

PDF Pages: 398-413 Full Text (78) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Influencing factors of hypotension during plasma exchange in patients with neuroimmunological diseases: a retrospective cohort study

Sulian Gu, Dandan Wei, Ling Yu

PDF Pages: 414-422 Full Text (63) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Apolipoprotein M delays the development of atherosclerosis by regulating autophagy and mitochondrial function

Yuanping Shi, Shuang Yao, Binhua Jiang, Jun Zhang, Mingjun Cao, Jing Wu, Lu Zheng, Ning Xu, Xiaoying Zhang, Guanghou Shui, Guanghua Luo

PDF Pages: 423-440 Full Text (76) Reporting Checklist Data Sharing Statement Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Review Article

Cardiovascular magnetic resonance and valvular heart diseases: a suggested protocol for congenital lesions

Francesca Baessato, Alessandro Ruzzarin, Christian Meierhofer

PDF Pages: 441-454 Full Text (61) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Establishing a cardiology registry: navigating quality and regulatory challenges with a focus on congenital heart disease

Robert David Pittrow, Oliver Dewald, Frank Harig, Ann-Sophie Kaemmerer-Suleiman, Mathieu Suleiman, Leonard Bernhard Pittrow, Stephan Achenbach, Annika Freiberger, Sebastian Freilinger, Benjamin Alexander Pittrow, Renate Kaulitz, Harald Kaemmerer

PDF Pages: 455-464 Full Text (82) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Applications of multi-modality imaging in the diagnosis of infective endocarditis: a real-life case based contemporary narrative review

Alice Haouzi, Mohamed Khayata, Wael A. Jaber, Bo Xu

PDF Pages: 465-479 Full Text (77) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Recent progress in metabolomic analysis of acute coronary syndrome: a narrative review

Jiaqi Liu, Tingmiao Li, Xin Qi, Chengyan He

PDF Pages: 480-499 Full Text (61) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Diagnosis, management, and outcome of heart failure in congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (ccTGA)—a narrative review

Motoki Komori, Maria Luisa Benesch Vidal, Kenta Imai, Yuji Tominaga, Keisuke Shibagaki, Rieko Kutsuzawa, Shota Kawai, Kentaro Hayashi, Kenichi Kurosaki, Hideo Ohuchi, Kouichi Toda, Yoshikatsu Saiki, Christoph Sinning, Shigemitsu Iwai

PDF Pages: 500-508 Full Text (118) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Case Report

Aneurysm of the fetal right ventricular free wall progressing to hypoplastic right heart syndrome: prenatal diagnosis, maternal digoxin therapy, and successful surgical intervention—a case report

Krzysztof Serafin, Agnieszka A. Nocun, Jacek Kolcz, Agata P. Bochenska, Emilia Gasiorowska, Marcin T. Wiechec

PDF Pages: 509-521 Full Text (Video) (281) 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 (117669) COI Form Open Access

Review Article

Pulmonary vascular anatomy & anatomical variants

Asha Kandathil, Murthy Chamarthy

Published online: 27 June 2018

PDF Pages: 201-207 Full Text (103266) 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 (97355) Chinese (4527) 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 (87229) 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 (80780) Chinese (4064) 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 (67952) Chinese (4384) 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 (67064) Chinese (5049) 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) (56533) PDF Pages: 37-43 Chinese (4139) 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 (52826) Chinese (11659) 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 (51272) 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 (44953) Chinese (4624) 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) (39177) 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 (36029) Chinese (3872) 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 (35363) Reporting Checklist COI Form 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) (34959) Chinese (4570) 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 (33610) 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 (32563) Open Access

Review Article

Complications of endovascular aneurysm repair of the thoracic and abdominal aorta: evaluation and management

Dania Daye, T. Gregory Walker

Published online: 13 April 2018

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Review Article

Advanced imaging in acute and chronic deep vein thrombosis

Gita Yashwantrao Karande, Sandeep S. Hedgire, Yadiel Sanchez, Vinit Baliyan, Vishala Mishra, Suvranu Ganguli, Anand M. Prabhakar

Published online: 29 December 2016

PDF Pages: 493-507 Full Text (30208) 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 (29907) Chinese (4338) Open Access

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

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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.