European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery – 2020 Reviewers

European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery/Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery--reach out for the next decade!

The Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Cardiothoracic SurgeryyInteractive CardioVascular Thoracic Surgery (EJCTSyICVTS) can be appointed for a maximum of two terms of five years each. The former Editor-in-Chief, Ludwig von Segesser, has served these two terms and I am proud to be chosen as the new Editor-in-Chief of these prestigious journals (Fig. 1). This change in the incumbent of th...

Statistical and data reporting guidelines for the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery and the Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery.

As part of the peer review process for the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EJCTS) and the Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery (ICVTS), a statistician reviews any manuscript that includes a statistical analysis. To facilitate authors considering submitting a manuscript and to make it clearer about the expectations of the statistical reviewers, we present up-to-date guide...

European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery: carrying the torch.

I would like to thank you for the honour of electing me as your President. As many of you might suspect and some of you know, in a well organised society like ours, with the Secretariat ably run by Torkel Aberg and Maud Zingmark, and the Organisational Secretariat efficiently managed by Kathy McGree, the duties of the President are not onerous. But still, a major task rests heavily on the shoul...

Research in cardio-thoracic surgery a European challenge.

25th anniversary of the foundation of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.

It was on May 17th 1986 in one of the lounges of RoissyCharles de Gaulle airport in Paris that a group of 12 cardiac and thoracic surgeons decided to found the EACTS after two prior meetings on March 1st 1986 at Amsterdam airport and on April 12th 1986 at Frankfurt airport, during which the advisability of creating such an association was debated (Fig. 1). Three or four of us already were convi...