Dear colleagues,

I am pleased to hand over the next issue of Azerbaijan Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery (AZJCVS) to you. AZJCVS journal publishes editorial, original and review papers, case reports and commentaries and conference proceedings in areas of cardiovascular surgery.

The aim of the journal is to promote scholarly, realistic and contemporaneous research in the ϐield of cardiovascular surgery. AZJCVS appoints experts from the scholarly community to perform the double blind peer-review process under the guidance of in-house editor to maintain the publication standards in every step of the publication.

I would like to thank all members of the editorial board for giving me the opportunity to be the Editorial-in-chief. I wish successful work to all my colleagues in the forthcoming period. I hope it is going to stimulate other young scientists to send us their manuscripts and present the outcomes of their studies.

In my opinion, it is a great chance to widen their knowledge and meet great scientists from all over the world, therefore, once again I would like to invite all scientists to join our Review Board.

We welcome you to submit your reviews, original research and editorials to AZJCVS . We hope you will be satisfied with the issue of AZJCVS , not only by the quantity, but also by the quality of the published materials. I am waiting for your suggestions and opinions.

Warm wishes,

Prof. Dr. Kamran Musayev
Editor – in – Chief