Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals
It evolved from the APEX newsletter in the mid to late 1980s into a regular scientific publication where Asian clinicians can report original work and case studies, discuss surgical techniques, review intra-disciplinary literature, and communicate regional news and events.
The focus of Asian Annals is the care of the heart. Our mission is to provide a forum for cardiovascular and thoracic surgeons, cardiologists, and allied health care professionals from Asia and the Pacific Rim to discuss the diagnoses and treatment of cardiovascular and thoracic diseases from a regional perspective.
Although compelling clinical work is accepted for publication from outside of Asia, we are primarily concerned with the development of cardiac medicine in this vast and diverse part of the world.
During our years of publication, Asian medicine has progressed at a pace unequaled in the world, and we look forward with renewed vigor to documenting this progress by reemphasizing our role as a forum for the free and open exchange on the issues, events, and scientific data impacting the vibrant Asian cardiac community.
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This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals is an international peer-reviewed journal pertaining to cardiovascular and thoracic medicine. Besides original clinical manuscripts, we welcome research reports, product reviews, reports of new techniques, and findings of special significance to Asia and the Pacific Rim. Case studies that have significant novel original observations, are instructive, include adequate methodological details and provide conclusions. Workshop proceedings, meetings and book reviews, letters to the editor, and meeting announcements are encouraged along with relevant articles from authors.
| Yutaka Okita | Kobe, Japan |
| Akif Turna (Lead Section Editor) | Istanbul University, Turkey |
| Aneez Ahmed | National University Hospital, Singapore |
| Vincent Fang | Shanghai Chest Hospital, China |
| Sanghoon Jheon | Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Korea |
| Ali Zamir Khan | Medanta, India |
| Punnarerk Thongcharoen | Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Thailand |
| Masahiro Tsuboi | Yokohama City University Medical Center, Japan |
| Carlos A. Mestres (Lead Section Editor) | University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland |
| Saeid Hosseini | Iran University of Medical Sciences, Iran |
| Joon Bum Kim | University of Seoul, South Korea |
| Takashi Kunihara | Jikei University School of Medicine, Japan |
| Minoru Ono | Univeristy of Tokyo, Japan |
| Vitaliy Sorokin | National University of Singapore, Singapore |
| Song Wan | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
| Xin Chen | Nanjing Medical University, China |
| Suk Jung Choo | |
| Kenji Minatoya | Kyoto University, Japan |
| Kenji Okada | Kobe University, Japan |
| Kay-Hyun Park (Lead Section Editor) | Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea |
| Hitoshi Ogino | Tokyo Medical University, Japan |
| Norihiko Shiiya | Hamamatsu University, Japan |
| Kisaburo Sakamoto (Lead Section Editor) | Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Japan |
| Zohair Y Al-Halees | King Faisal Heart Institute, Saudi Arabia |
| Yih Sharng Chen | National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan |
| Akio Ikai | Mt. Fuji Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Japan |
| Young Hwan Park | Yonsei University Health System, South Korea |
| Sivakumar Sivalingam | National Heart Institute, Malaysia |
| Naoki Yoshimura | University of Toyama, Japan |
| Kalliopi Athanassiadi | Evangelismos General Hospital, Greece |
| Edward Chen | Duke University, USA |
| Martin Czerny | University Heart Center Freiburg- Bad Krozingen, Germany |
| José I. G. Fragata | NOVA University, Portugal |
| Jeffrey P. Jacobs | University of Florida, USA |
| Richard Jonas | Children’s National Hospital, USA |
| Jay M. Lee | Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, USA |
| Chris Malaisrie | Northwestern University, USA |
| Davide Pacini | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, Italy |
| Eduard Quintana | Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Spain |
| Ivan Schewitz | Pretoria University, South Africa |
| Thoralf Sundt | Harvard University, USA |
| David Winlaw | Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, USA |
| Sai Yendamuri | Roswell Park Cancer Institute, USA |
| A. Sampath Kumar | Max Super Speciality Hospital, India |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.