Rigorous peer-review is the main part in building the corner-stone of high-quality academic publishing. The editorial team greatly appreciates the authors, reviewers who contributed their knowledge and expertise to the journal’s editorial process over the past 12 months. In 2017, a total of 30 articles was published in the journal and in 2018, a total of 15 articles will be published with a median time to first decision of 15 days and a median time to publication of 20 days. The editorial office would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following authors, reviewers and editors for their cooperation and dedication in 2017 and 2018:

Authors:

Rita Nogueira-Ferreira, et al. [1]

Serkan Burc Deser, et al. [2]

Milovancev Aleksandra, et al. [3]

Shabnam Rashid [4]

Caglar Macit, et al. [5]

Robert F. Riley, et al. [6]

Amar Taksande, et al. [7]

Chien-Cheng Chen, et al. [8]

Gunjan Gupta, et al. [9]

Hala Agha, et al. [10]

Imran Tahir [11]

Cong Zhang, et al. [12]

Gloria-Bottini F, et al. [13]

Pierre A. Guertin [14]

Neha M. Mantri, et al. [15]

Sachin Sondhi, et al. [16]

Simi Khan, et al. [17]

Reda Biomy, et al. [18]

Durgendra Bikram Maghaiya, et al. [19]

Maria Luz Gunturiz A, et al. [20]

Xiang Gu, et al. [21]

Liam OHalloran, et al. [22]

Guy Hugues Fontaine, et al. [23]

Rudenko, et al. [24]

Rohit S. Loomba, et al. [25]

Sabri Seyis, et al. [26]

Antonio Chiricolo, et al. [27]

Noor Fatmawati Mokhtar, et al. [28]

Noureddine Atmani, et al. [29]

Maciej Pawlikowski, et al. [30]

Noureddine Atmani, et al. [31]

Nicole R. Fowler, et al. [32]

Cong Zhang, et al. [33]

Yishu Tang, et al. [34]

Hasan Ata Bolayir, et al. [35]

Hassah Batool Iftikhar, et al. [36]

Suresh V Patted, et al. [37]

Evgeniya Tavlueva, et al. [38]

Mohammad Bilaal Toorabally, et al. [39]

Hassah Batool Iftikhar, et al. [40-41]

Hasan Ata Bolayir, et al. [42]

Jiang Hong, et al. [43]

Hakan Gunes, et al. [44]

Hong Jiang, et al. [45]

Editors and Reviewers:

Andreas Synetos Gordon A Ewy Aiman Smer

Giancarlo Marenzi Alfredo E Rodriguez Angela Sciacqua

Fabrizio Fanelli Chiara Foglieni Gaetano Nucifora Cengiz Ozturk

Antonietta Gigante Anna Maria Ierardi Congxin Huang

Antonio Rapacciuolo Istvan Kovanecz

Francesco Pollari Andrzej Ochala Francesca Musella Attila Kardos

Dario Buccheri Antonio Frontera

Dionyssios Leftheriotis Gianluigi Savarese

Francesco Granata Bu Chun Zhang

Alejandro Gutierrez Barrios Djordje Popovic

Daniel Grandmougin Guglielmo Stefanelli Antonella De Angelis Baoge QU

Alberto Aimo

Guang Hui Dong Zufeng Ding

Galina Leyvi

Nduka Chidozie Bernhard Winkler Liu Bi-Cheng

George Paraskevas Mohammed Idhrees Hamed Asadi

Ahmed Hassouna Atsushi Jogo

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2. Serkan Burc Deser, Mustafa Kemal Demirag. Management of Excessive Long Segment Coronary Artery Stent Restenosis. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 (2017): 023-025.
3. Milovancev Aleksandra, Edita Stokic, Aleksandra Plecas-Duric, Dorde Popovic, Branislava Ilincic. Is Qtc Interval Associated With Insulin Resistance in Metabolic Syndrome? Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 (2017): 026-036.
4. Shabnam Rashid. Clinical Outcomes From The Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold: Is There A Role for Them? Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 (2017): 037-042.
5. Caglar Macit, Neda Taner, Latif Ozbay, Yuksel Behzetoglu, Guldem Mercanoglu. Clinical Impacts of Cyp3a4 Isoenzyme on Drugs Used in Treatment of Cardiovascular Diseases: Drug-Drug Interactions. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 (2017): 043-049.
6. Robert F. Riley and Bill Lombardi. Solving the Dilemma of Ostial Stenting: A Case Series Illustrating the Flash Ostial System. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 (2017): 050-057
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18. Reda Biomy, Heba Mansour, EL Said Abdel Khaliek, HalaEL Farghaly and Shahira Mohamad. Short-Term Outcome of Balloon Angioplasty of Discrete Coarctation of Aorta. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 (2017): 133-149.
19. Durgendra Bikram Maghaiya, Bilal Haider Shamsi, Geng Zhi Min, Yan Yang. Warm Blood Retrogrades Coronary Sinus Perfusion in Beating Heart Technique for Aortic Valve Replacement in 73 Cases. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 (2017): 150-154.
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25. Rohit S. Loomba, Karan Nijhawan, Saurabh Aggarwal, Rohit R. Arora. Medical Management of Vasovagal Syncope: A Network Meta Analysis. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 (2017): 210-223.
26. Sabri Seyis, Ozge Kurmus. The Importance of Inflammation Markers in Heart Failure Patients With Appropriate Or Inappropriate ICD Shock. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 (2017): 224-229.
27. Antonio Chiricolo, Leonard Y Lee. Mitral Valve Repair for Functional Mitral Regurgitation-Description of A New Technique and Classification System. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 (2017): 230-235.
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29. Noureddine Atmani, Julia Mitchell, Olivier Metton, Jean Ninet. Emergency Surgical Retrieval of an Amplatzer Septal Occluder Device Embolization. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 1 (2017): 248-251.
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34. Yishu Tang, Yang Yang. The Correlation Between ApoE Genetic Polymorphism and Serum Lipid Levels. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 (2018): 039-043.
35. Hasan Ata Bolayir. Nesfatin-1 Levels in Cardiac Syndrome X Patients. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 (2018): 044-052.
36. Hassah Batool Iftikhar, Jiang Hong. Better Clinical Outcome For Rehospitalization Heart Failure Patients With Reduced Left Ventricular Function in Mode of Sudden Cardiac Death. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 (2018): 053-064.
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38. Evgeniya Tavlueva, Alexey Alekseenko, Olga Gruzdeva, Evgenya Uchasova, Olga Barbarash. Impact of Switching From Clopidogrel To Ticagrelor on Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 (2018): 074-085.
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42. Hasan Ata Bolayir. Patients with Normal Coronary Arteries Via Angiography: The Relationship Between Slow Coronary Flow and Serglycin. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 (2018): 111-122.
43. Jiang Hong, Hassah Batool Iftikhar. Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease with Collaborative Diabetes Study in the Efficacy of Statins: Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 (2018): 123-134.
44. Hakan Gunes, Oguzhan Yucel, Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz. Effect of Valsalva Maneuver in Measuring Valve Area. Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine 2 (2018): 135-144.
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