Editorial Team
Editor-in-Chief:
Igor Rudez, MD
Dpt. of Cardiac and Transplant Surgery
University Hospital Dubrava
Croatia
Founder and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus
Mark M. Levinson, MD
Department of Cardiology
Confluence Health
Wenatchee, Washington, USA
Assistant Editors
Davor Baric, MD, PhD
Dubrava University Hospital
Zagreb, Croatia
Ben Bidstrup, FRACS, FRCSEd
University of Queensland
Holy Spirit Northside Northside Clinical School Hospital
Chermside Queensland, Australia
Daniel Unic, MD, PhD
Dubrava University Hospital
Zagreb, Croatia
Song Wan, MD, FRCS
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Prince of Wales Hospital
Hong Kong, China
Editorial Board
Lishan Aklog, MD
Pavilion Holdings Group
Purchase, New York, USA
John C. Alexander, MD,
University of North Carolina,
Pinehurst, USA
Dr. Rui M.S. Almeida
Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Parana
Cascavel, Brazil
Tohru Asai, MD
Shiga University of Medical Science
Otsu, Japan
Roberto Battellini, MD
Hospital Italiano Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Castigliano M. Bhamidipati
Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, OR, USA
William E. Cohn, MD
Texas Heart Institute
Houston, Texas, USA
Reddy Dandolu, MD
University of Nevada School of Medicine
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Michael S. Firstenberg, MD
The Summa Health Care System
Akron, Ohio, USA
Jan D. Galla, MD
Englewood Hospital
Englewood, New Jersey, USA
Changqing Gao, MD
Institute of Cardiac Surgery
Chinese PLA General Hospital
Bejing, China
Hrvoje Gasparovic, MD, PhD, FETCS
Assoc. Professor of Surgery Director
Department of Cardiac Surgery
University Hospital Rebro
Zagreb, Croatia
Vassilios Gulielmos, MD,
Geniki Kliniki Thessaloniki
Thessaloniki, Greece
Philip Hess Jr., MD
Shands Hospital, University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida
Hitoshi Hirose, MD,
Thomas Jefferson University,
Philadelphia, USA
Mehmet Kaplan
Siyami Ersek Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital
Istanbul, Turkey, Turkey
Tomislav Klokocovnik,
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
University Medical Center Ljubljana
Michael Knaut, MD,
Heart Center Dresden University Hospital,
Dresden, Germany
Emmanuel Lansac, MD, PhD
Tomas D. Martin, MD
University of Florida Hospital
Orlando, Florida, USA
John Murkin, MD, FRCPC
London Health Sciences Centre
London, Ontario, Canada
Oztekin Oto, MD, FESC, FACC
Dokuz Eylul University Hospital
Izmir, Turkey
John Pym, MD
Main Line Health,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Mohd Ramzisham Abdul Rahman, MD
Heart & Lung Centre, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Goya V. Raikar, MD
Oklahoma Heart Hospital Physicians,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Lucas Ramirez-Gil, MD
Department of Surgery, Universidad de Antioquia Chairman of Cardiovascular Surgery,
Hospital General de Medellin Medellin,
Colombia, Colombia
Hermann Reichenspurner, MD
University Hospital Eppendorf,
Hamburg, Germany
Friedrich-Christian Riess, MD
Albertinen Heart Center,
Hamburg, Germany
Petar Risteski, MD
University Hospital Zürich,
Department of Cardiac Surgery,
Zürich, Switzerland
Edward P. Raines, MD
Cardiovascular Institute of Faith Regional Health Services
Norfolk, Nebraska, USA
Matthew A. Romano, MD
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Donald Ross, FRACS,
The Royal North Shore Hospital,
Sydney, Australia
Igor Rudez, MD
Department of Cardiac and Transplant Surgery
Dubrava University Hospital
Zagreb, Croatia
Hossein Shayan,
Synergy CT Surgery Partnership,
USA
Prasanna Simha, MBBS, MD, DM
Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology
Karnataka, India
Gregory D Trachiotis
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
The George Washington University Medical Center
Washington, D.C., USA
Hendrik Treede, MD, PhD
University Heart Center Hamburg
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Martinistrasse 52
Hamburg, Germany
Curt Tribble, MD
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Christina Vassileva, MD
SIU School of Medicine
Springfield, Illinois, USA
Murali Prabhakaran Vettath
MEITRA HOSPITAL Kozhikode
Kerala, India
Grayson H. Wheatley III
Temple University School of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Leora Yarboro, MD,
University of Virginia Health System,
Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Vipin Zamvar, MD, FRCS
Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Xin Zhang, MD
Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University
Department of Geriatrics
Wuhan, Hubei, China