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Special Issues
Cardiology and Vascular Diseases
Handling editor
Ying-Fu Chen, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery and Graduate Institute of
Medicine
Kaohsiung Medical University
Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Description/Purpose of the special issue and the current
relevance
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), a group of disorders of the heart and blood
vessels, include ischemic heart disease, hypertension, heart failure,
arrhythmia, cerebrovascular disease, peripheral arterial disease,
rheumatic heart disease, and so on. According to World Health Organization (WHO)
data, it is important to reduce cardiovascular risk by identifying behavioural
risk factor such as high cholesterol diets,
tobacco use, the consumption of alcohol, unhealthy diet, obesity and lack
physical activity. Furthermore, it is also necessary to receive appropriate
management of diabetes, hypertension and high blood lipids.
In 2017, ACC/AHA high blood pressure guidelines defined new criteria of
hypertension. The crude prevalence of hypertension among US adults was increased
from 31.9% to 45.6%. High blood pressure should be treated
earlier with lifestyle modifications and in some patients with medication
– at 130/80 mm Hg rather than 140/90 mm Hg. The lower definition of
hypertension reminds us to pay more attention to the potential
cardiovascular complications due to hypertension.
With advances in medical technology, the life expectancy increases, and the
impact of aging population cannot be ignored. Global aging affects individual
health, family structures, economic growth and conditionality
of national policy. Heart failure is common in adults, especially in the
elderly. As we know, aging contributes to deterioration of cardioprotective
systems and acceleration of disease processes that is
fertile ground for the development of heart failure. A large proportion of the
elder people with heart failure are undertreated with evidence-based therapy,
accounting for substantial morbidity, hospitalization,
and mortality worldwide nowadays. On the population over age 70, approximately
50% of all heart failure diagnoses and 90% of all heart failure deaths happen.
Therefore, heart failure causes a substantial
economic burden on national healthcare systems. Accordingly, it needs more
research in deep to decline the risk of age-associated CVDs.
The Cardiology and Vascular Diseases is a special issue
and focused on basic science and clinical medicine of cardiovascular system. We
are interested in pathophysiology of cardiology,
diagnostic consideration, trend in medicine, novel approach of surgical
interventions and non-surgical therapeutic strategies, conditionality of policy,
and other related topics. Our mission is to deliver
high-quality case reports, case series, expert commentary, original research and
reviews with contributions from leading world experts.
Suggested topics includes as follows, but not limited to:
- Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS)
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Heart Failure
- Novel Oral Anticoagulants (NOACs)
- Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI)
- Acute Aortic Syndrome (AAS)
- Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms/Dissections
- Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Repair (TEVAR)
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA)
- Hypertension
- Atherosclerosis
- Venous Thromboembolism (VTE)
- Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
- Coronary-Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG)
- Mitral Valve Repair
- Robotic Cardiac Surgery
- Congenital Coronary Anomalies
- Cardiomyopathy
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Cardiac Regeneration
Dr.
Ying-Fu Chen is a Professor of Surgery, and Graduate Institute of Medicine,
Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He has a MD
degree from Kaohsiung Medical College, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1973, and his PhD
degree from Graduate Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, in
1992. In 1983, Dr Chen was as a clinical fellow at the
Heart Institute of Japan, Tokyo Women Medical University. In 1985, he went to
Durham, North Carolina, as a research fellow at Duke University Medical Center.
In 1992, Dr Chen was appointed as Professor of Surgery
at Kaohsiung Medical University. He is also appointed as a Professor of Graduate
Institute of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University. His main research interests
include inflammation, endothelial biology, vascular
degeneration, and stem cells in basic studies and thoracic aorta
aneurysms/dissections and valvular heart diseases in clinical fields. He has
authored over 80 peer-reviewed medical publications and has served as
editorships of 2 books, authorships of many book chapters. 
