The ''European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery'', abbreviated ''Eur J Cardiothorac Surg'', is an academic journal, principally covering topics pertaining to

cardiac surgery Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons. It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to co ...

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thoracic surgery Cardiothoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of organs inside the thoracic cavity — generally treatment of conditions of the heart (heart disease), lungs (lung disease), and other pleural or mediastinal stru ...

Editorial board

The journal has an editorial board of 28, with 13 associate editors, 8 assistant editors, a managing editor, an editorial manager, and an editor-in-chief.

Access

Articles in the journal become open access one year after publication. The journal is abstracted and indexed by: * Current Contents (Clinical Medicine) * EMBASE *

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*Iberoamericana de Información Científica] (SIIC) Data Bases (in Spanish and Portuguese)http://www.siicsalud.com/siicestr.htm Sociedad

References

Surgery journals Cardiology journals Monthly journals Publications established in 1987 Academic journals associated with international learned and professional societies of Europe Oxford University Press academic journals {{surgery-journal-stub