Dear Colleagues and students As Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine, I would like to dedicate my especial respect and appreciation for your kind regards and consideration to our journal. Fortunately, it is our pleasure to announce that Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine is now indexed in DOAJ and Magiran. Additionally we are expecting to index Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medi...

Dear colleagues, It is my pleasure to welcome you in the third issue of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine and I hope you find it interesting. In this issue, beside the valuable original articles and an interesting case report, a useful review article have been published concerning the role of nuclear medicine in the management of solitary pulmonary nodule.I am proud to announce you that Journ...

dear colleagues, welcome to the fourth issue of the journal of cardio-thoracic medicine. we are grateful that with support and cooperation of our dear colleagues, the first year of jctm publication passed successfully. we are expecting to promote the indexing of journal of cardio-thoracic medicine in the following year. in this issue, a valuable review article has been written by dr.corlateanu ...

Dear Colleagues,   As Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine (JCTM), it is my pleasure to introduce this official quarterly publication of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, which is an international, peer-reviewed, and English language journal. Our aim is to publish high quality integrating clinical and experimental research in the following fields: Respiratory medici...

introduction: chest x–ray is one of the most common method of imaging. cardio thoracic ratio ( ctr ) is one of the parameters of chest x–ray that is used for determining cardiac enlargement. echocardiography as compared to chest x–ray is expensive and all centers dont have it, but it can determine heart size, valvular diseases, ejection fraction, left ventricular hypertrophy (lvh), pericardial ...

Dear colleagues, Welcome to the fourth issue of the Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine. We are grateful that with support and cooperation of our dear colleagues, the first year of JCTM publication passed successfully. We are expecting to promote the indexing of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine in the following year. In this issue, a valuable review article has been written by Dr.Corlateanu ...

This paper presents a method to automatically measure cardio-thoracic ratio (CTR) from a chest radiographic images using non-linear least square approximation and local minimum. The proposed method consists of initial boundary point identification, cardiac diameter measurement, thoracic diameter measurement and cardio-thoracic ratio measurement. First, the initial boundary points used to approx...

The Multidisciplinary Congress in Cardio-Thoracic Healthcare was held in Ottawa, Canada, August 17–20, 2006. The Congress focused on some of the fastest-evolving areas in cardio–thoracic healthcare, namely medical devices, interventional procedures, pharmaceutical agents, imaging technologies, cell-based therapies and surgical approaches. The Congress Chairs were Sir Magdi Yacoub, Joel D Cooper...

2020 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with European Association Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS)

1 Resident, Dept of Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, S.M.S Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 2 Assistant Professor, Dept of Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, S.M.S Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 3 Associate Professor, Dept of Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, S.M.S Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 4 Professor and Head, Dept of Cardio Thoracic and Vascul...