World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery
The World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WJPCHS) is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed scientific publication dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge pertaining to congenital heart anomalies, and pediatric heart diseases in general. It is the official journal of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WSPCHS), African Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (ASPCHS), Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society (CHSS), and European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA). A central focus of the Journal is the surgical aspect of the care of infants, children, and adults. The International Editorial Advisory Board includes specialists in congenital heart surgery, cardiology, anesthesia, critical care and nursing.
The Journal will contain, and manuscript submissions are welcome, in the following categories:
- Original Reports of clinical and/or basic scientific investigations and observations relevant to the care and management of patients with congenital heart disease
- Review Articles, Expert Techniques, Historical Perspectives, and descriptions of New Technologies (with focus on surgical topics, as well as interventional cardiology, anesthesia, and critical care)
- Instructive Case Reports and unique Images of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease
- Reports of proceedings of the meetings of WSPCHS, as well as those of other national and regional cardiac surgical societies and pediatric cardiology organizations that do not have widely distributed official publications of their own
- Papers on diverse subjects relevant to the mission of WSPCHS, including worldwide and regional demographics of congenital heart disease (CHD), healthcare policy and economics pertinent to CHD, programs of international collaboration in the development and support of centers for CHD, challenges and progress in clinical care in underserved areas, and issues related to congenital heart surgery education and training around the world
- Manuscripts submitted by organizations or entities interested in advancing the care of pediatric and congenital heart disease patients worldwide
For more information, contact Editor-in-Chief Carl Backer, MD at carl.backer@uky.edu.
To reach the WJPCHS Editorial Office, contact WJPCHS@wspchs.org.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Submit your manuscript today at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/wjpchs.
The World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WJPCHS) is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed scientific publication dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge pertaining to congenital heart anomalies, and pediatric heart diseases in general, with a central focus on surgical aspects of their management. It is the official journal of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WSPCHS), African Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (ASPCHS), Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society (CHSS), and European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA). The International Editorial Advisory Board includes specialists in congenital heart surgery, cardiology, anesthesia, critical care, perfusion technology, and nursing, as well as basic and translational scientists and experts in epidemiology and biostatistics.
| Carl L. Backer | Cincinnati & Lexington, USA |
| Virginia F. Hawkins | Thousand Oaks, USA |
| Marshall L. Jacobs | Baltimore, USA |
| Robert H. Anderson | London, United Kingdom |
| Welton Gersony | New York, USA |
| Richard A. Jonas | Washington, D.C., USA |
| Robin H. Kinsley | Johannesburg, South Africa |
| James K. Kirklin | Birmingham, USA |
| Guillermo Kreutzer | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Hiromi Kurosawa | Tokyo, Japan |
| Constantine Mavroudis | Indianapolis, USA |
| Andrew N. Redington | Cincinnati, USA |
| Norman H. Silverman | Palo Alto, USA |
| Giovanni Stellin | Padova, Italy |
| Magdi Yacoub | London, UK |
| Zohair Y. Al-Halees | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| David Barron | Toronto, Canada |
| Sertac M. Cicek | Istanbul, Turkey |
| Frank Edwin | Accra, Ghana |
| Kirsten Finucane | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Jose Fragata | Miraflores-Alges, Portugal |
| Jürgen Hörer | Munich, Germany |
| Jeffrey P. Jacobs | Gainesville, USA |
| Sara K. Pasquali | Ann Arbor, USA |
| Nestor F. Sandoval | Bogota, Colombia |
| Shunji Sano | San Francisco, USA |
| Elizabeth H. Stephens | Rochester, MN |
| David S. Winlaw | Chicago, USA |
| Vera Demarchi Aiello | Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Nelson Alphonso | Brisbane, Australia |
| Bahaaldin Alsoufi | Louisville, USA |
| Petros Anagnostopoulos | Madison, USA |
| Brett Anderson | New York, NY, USA |
| Jeffrey Anderson | Cincinnati, OH, USA |
| Dean Andropoulos | Houston, USA |
| Erle Austin | Louisville, USA |
| Mark Awori | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Emile Bacha | New York, USA |
| Pedro Becker | Santiago, Chile |
| Emre Belli | Massy, France |
| Drissi Boumzebra | Casablanca, Morocco |
| Duke Cameron | Baltimore, USA |
| Horacio Capelli | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Frank Cetta | Rochester, USA |
| Jonathan Chen | Philadelphia, USA |
| Karen Chiswell | Durham, USA |
| Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhury | New Delhi, India |
| Julie Cleuziou | Munich, Germany |
| Mitchell Cohen | Falls Church, USA |
| David Cooper | Cincinnati, USA |
| John M. Costello | Charleston, USA |
| Yves d’Udekem | Washington, D.C., USA |
| Francisco da Costa | Curitiba, Brazil |
| Barbara Deal | Chicago, USA |
| Joseph Dearani | Rochester, USA |
| William DeCampli | Orlando, USA |
| Ali Dodge-Khatami | New York, USA |
| Tjark Ebels | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Pirooz Eghtesady | St. Louis, USA |
| Andrew Fiore | St Louis, USA |
| Rodney Franklin | London, UK |
| Mark Hazekamp | Leiden, Netherlands |
| Claudia Herbst | Vienna, Austria |
| Patricia Hickey | Boston, USA |
| Kevin Hill | Durham, USA |
| Yasutaka Hirata | Tokyo, Japan |
| Jennifer C. Hirsch-Romano | Ann Arbor, USA |
| Christoph Hornik | Durham, USA |
| T-Y Hsia | Orlando, USA |
| Sheng-Shou Hu | Beijing, China |
| Christopher Hugo-Hamman | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Vladimir Ilyin | Moscow, Russian Federation |
| Nobuyuki Ishibashi | Washington, D.C., USA |
| Paul J. Devlin | Philadelphia, USA |
| Katarzyna Januszewska | Muenster, Germany |
| Marcelo Jatene | Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| David Kalfa | New York, NY, USA |
| Andrzej Kansy | Warsaw, Poland |
| Igor Konstantinov | Melbourne, Australia |
| Christian Kreutzer | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Ram Kumar Subramanyan | Omaha, USA |
| Shelby Kutty | Baltimore, USA |
| Francois Lacour-Gayet | Muscat, Oman |
| Linda Lambert | Salt Lake City, UT, USA |
| John Lamberti | Stanford, USA |
| Peter Lang | Boston, USA |
| Cheul Lee | Seoul, Korea |
| Richard Mainwaring | Palo Alto, USA |
| Edward Malec | Muenster, Germany |
| Jörg Männer | Goettingen, Germany |
| Gerard Martin | Washington, D.C., USA |
| Bohdan Maruszewski | Warsaw, Poland |
| Emmett Mckenzie | Houston, USA |
| Carlos Mery | Austin, USA |
| Dominique Metras | Marseilles, France |
| Bret Mettler | Baltimore, USA |
| David Meyer | New Hyde Park, USA |
| Silvana Molossi | Houston, USA |
| Tomasz Mroczek | Krakow, Poland |
| Meena Nathan | Boston, USA |
| Susan Nicolson | Philadelphia, USA |
| Alexander Opotowsky | Cincinnati, USA |
| Yishay Orr | Houston, USA |
| Christian Pizarro | Wilmington, USA |
| Tamar Preminger | Philadelphia, USA |
| Athar Qureshi | Houston, USA |
| Samuel Ramirez Marroquin | Mexico City, Mexico |
| V. Mohan Reddy | San Francisco, USA |
| Richard Ringel | Baltimore, USA |
| Peter Roeleveld | Leiden, Netherlands |
| Jack Rychik | Philadelphia, USA |
| Sameh Said | Valhalla, USA |
| Heikki I. Sairanen | Helsinki, Finland |
| Kisaburo Sakamoto | Shizuoka City, Japan |
| Eduardo Jose Vanti Sancho | Campinas, Brazil |
| George Sarris | Athens, Greece |
| Alain Serraf | Tel Hashomer, Israel |
| Rajesh Sharma | New Delhi, India |
| Toshiharu Shinoka | Columbus, USA |
| Ayman Shoeb | Cairo, Egypt |
| James St Louis | Augusta, USA |
| Sarah Tabbutt | San Francisco, USA |
| Christo I. Tchervenkov | Montreal, Canada |
| Ravi Thiagarajan | Boston, USA |
| Gaetano Thiene | Padova, Italy |
| Victor Tsang | London, United Kingdom |
| Joseph Turek | Durham, USA |
| Akif Undar | Hershey, USA |
| Richard Van Praagh | Boston, USA |
| David F. Vener, MD | Houston, USA |
| Luca Vricella | Chicago, USA |
| Amelia Wallace | Baltimore, USA |
| William J. Wallen | Cincinnati, USA |
| Henry L. Walters III | Detroit, USA |
| Qingyu Wu | Beijing, China |
| Herve Yangni-Angate | Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire |
| Ilya Yemets | Kyiv, Ukraine |
| Hao Zhang | Shanghai, China |
| David Zurakowski | Boston, USA |
Manuscript submission guidelines can be accessed on Sage Journals.