International Cardiovascular Forum Journal

The International Cardiovascular Forum Journal is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing high quality reports, studies, trials, investigations and theories covering all aspects of cardiovascular and cardiometabolic health and disease.

The International Cardiovascular Forum Journal is indexed in Google Scholar, as well as in Open Archives Registry (http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/register_data_provider), ISI (International Scientific Indexing, http://isindexing.com/isi/index.php), SIS (Scientific Indexing Services, http://www.sindexs.org/JournalList.aspx?ID=1896), the ROAD Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources (http://road.issn.org), by Crossref (http://www.crossref.org) and by Bookmarking.usrs0.com. Listing in Web of Science (WOS) has been applied for.

Published by Barcaray International Publishing (Dubai, Hong Kong, London), C/0 T&F Group, The Maze Tower, Sheikh Zayed Road, PO Box 58531,  Dubai, United Arab Emirates (http://barcaray.com)

Website http://www.icfjournal.org

ISSN 2409-3424 (online) 2410-2636 (Print)


Afilliated with:  

THE MALTESE CARDIAC SOCIETY

THE KOSOVO SOCIETY OF CARDIOLOGY


ICFJ covers a broad area of interest from molecules, 
to clinical practice to populations including: 

  • Coronary artery disease
  • Hypertension
  • Diabetes
  • Valve disease
  • Heart failure
  • Arrhythmias
  • Congenital heart diseases
  • Cardiovascular imaging (echo, CMR, PET, CT and
    nuclear cardiology)
  • Genetic cardiac disease
  • Vascular diseases
  • Systemic disease with cardio-metabolic impact
  • Gene, Cell and regenerative therapies
  • Clinical trials
  • Epidemiology
  • Socio-economic and health services research
  • Environmental and nutritional cardiovascular disease
  • Biotechnology and devices
  • Mathematical modeling
  • Computers, IT and tele-solutions
  • and opinion pieces and controversies

 

 

Editorial Board

Svend Aakhus (Norway)
Lennart Bergfeldt (Sweden)
John Chapman (France)
Andrew Coats (UK, Australia)
Ragnar Danielsen (Iceland)
Constantinos Davos (Greece)
Frank Dini (Italy)
Xin Du (China)
Raimund Erbel (Germany)
Frank Flachskampf (Sweden)
Carmen Ginghina (Romania)
Pascal Gueret (France)
Christian Hassager (Denmark)
Charles Jazra (Lebanon)
Xu Yu Jin (UK)
Juan Carlos Kaski (UK)
Joseph Kisslo (USA)
Juhani Knuuti (Finland)
Lars H Lindholm (Sweden)
Changsheng Ma (China)

 

Gerald Maurer (Austria)
William McKenna (UK)
Joseph Moutiris (Cyprus)
Sergio Mondillo (Italy)
Sherif Nagueh (USA)
Ulf Näslund (Sweden)
Mitsuru Ohishi (Japan)
Basil Okeahialam (Nigeria)
Ali Oto (Turkey)
John Pepper (UK)
Eugenio Picano (Italy)
Fausto Pinto (Portugal)
Axel Schmermund (Germany)
Otto Smiseth (Norway)
Chuwa Tei (Japan)
Anders Waldenström (Sweden)
Olov Wiklund (Sweden)
Robert Xuereb (Malta)
Fuquan Yang (China)
Pepe Zamorano (Spain)

Joint Editors-in-Chief: 

Professor Michael Henein, Umea  

 

Professor Andrew Coats, Monash

 

 

Associate Editors

Reinadlo Bulgarelli Bestetti (Ribeirão Preto, Brazil)

Rafaelle Bugiardini (Bologna, Italy)

L. Ceri Davies (London, UK)

Jan Engvall (Linköping, Sweden)

Abdel José Fuenmayor (Merida, Venezuela)

Per Lindqvist (Stockholm, Sweden)

Paolo Emilio Puddu (Rome, Italy)

Stefan Söderberg (Umeå, Sweden)

Xander Wehrens (Houston, USA)

Reidar Winter (Stockholm, Sweden)

 

Announcements

 

Volume 11 Published

 
We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 11 of the International Cardiovascualr Forum Journal.  All papers are now freely available on line.  
Posted: 2017-06-03
 

Volume 10 Published

 
We have pleasure in announcing the publication of Volume 10 with 22 papers on the topic of heart failure.  This volume offers expert summaries on the modern management of Heart Failure from a panel of international experts.  
Posted: 2017-06-03
 

Notice of Retraction

 
This is to inform that 

Jayaraj JC, Abrahamyan L, Demirchyan A. Comparative Effectiveness of Complete Revascularization Versus Infarct Related Artery-only Percutaneous Coronary Revascularization for Multivessel Disease After ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction. International Cardiovascular Forum Journal. 2016;8:19-23.  DOI: 10.17987/icfj.v8i0.256

has been retracted.  This is at the request of the second and third authors who deny ever have given permisison for this article.  The first author had submitted false email addresses for the second and third author and lied during the submission process about their approval.  

 
Posted: 2017-03-10 More...
 
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Vol 11 (2017)

Full Issue

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Table of Contents

Editorial

Marco Zuin, Gianluca Rigatelli
394

Original Article

Ghazi Radaideh, Nikolaos Tzemos, Talaha Mubarak Ali, Yasser Eldershaby, Jean Joury, Paula Abreu
414
Michael Tzu Min Wang, James Pemberton, Tom Kai Ming Wang
427
Camila Bedo, Juan C Grignola
433
Elena Okisheva, Dmitry Tsaregorodtsev, Vitaly Sulimov
393
Alexander Manché, Aaron Casha, Liberato Camilleri
432
Kamilu Karaye, Adeseye Akintunde, Akinsanya Olusegun-Joseph, Suleiman A Balarabe, Bolanle Okunowo, Abdulrazaq Habib, OG Opadijo
435
Maryanne Caruana, Miriam Gatt, Oscar Aquilina, Charles Savona Ventura, Victor Grech, Jane Somerville
416
Gaurang Nandkishor Vaidya, Bhaskara Madhira
439
Sergio Vancheri, Viviana Milino, Michael Henein, Corrado Tamburino
441
Rossana Taravella, Melchiorre Gilberto Cellura, Giuseppe Cirrincione, Salvatore Asciutto, Marco Caruso, Massimo Benedetto, Rossella Alduino, Salvatore Novo
437
Marcio Galindo Kiuchi, Shaojie Chen, Luis Marcelo Rodrigues Paz, Helmut Pürerfellner
443

Letters to the Editor

Ana Redondo Palacios, Javier Miguelena, Miren Martín, Laura Varela, Eduardo Fajardo, José López, Rafael Muñoz, Jorge Rodríguez-Roda
410