About the Journal

The Heart Surgery Forum® (HSF, Print ISSN: 1098-3511, Electronic ISSN: 1522-6662) is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal for cardiothoracic surgery professionals. The journal utilizes electronic peer review for efficient and timely decision-making and publishes articles to the web as soon as accepted and processed through the production system. All articles published in HSF will be indexed in/visible through the National Library of Medicine’s Index Medicus database, MEDLINE, Web of Science (the Science Citation Index Expanded, Impact Factor: 0.6), SciSearch, Scopus, ISI Alerting Services, Google Scholar, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, and EMBASE. (Founded in 1997)

Current Issue

Vol. 26 No. 6 (2023)
Published: 2023-11-06

Case Report

  • Interventional Bridging Therapy for Radical Cardiac Surgery in a Patient Seemed to be Inoperable Due to Very Poor Left Ventricular Function: A Case Report
    JeongA Lee, Masahiro Tsutsui, Nobuhiro Mochizuki, Yuki Setogawa, Fumitaka Suzuki, Masahiko Narita, Aina Hirofuji, Shingo Kunioka, Tomonori Shirasaka, Natsuya Ishikawa, Sayaka Yuzawa, Hiroyuki Kamiya
    E676-E679
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59958/hsf.5779
  • Central Catheter-Induced Cardiac Tamponade in Neonates: Two Case Reports
    Hyungtae Kim, Kwang Ho Choi
    E672-E675
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.59958/hsf.5825
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