EDITORIAL

Events have been shooting past faster than time: just in the last few months there have taken place the National Congresses of angiologists and cardiologists, the 4th Russian-Swiss Science Forum, the 28th European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Annual Meeting... Our journal strives to meet the novelty of the ideas from such scientific events, so in this issue the reader will encounter articles based on some of the most interesting submitted reports. This form of selecting publications, no doubt, enhances their quality, as all the information and data have already undergone very careful editing.

The President of the Russian Federation in His Annual Address to the Federal Assembly December 4, 2014 suggested declaring 2015 the National Year of Fighting Cardiovascular Diseases. The strategy of our journal is to highlight the most significant in modern medicine and surgery, so this issue matches the objectives outlined by the President.

I wish all of you the pleasure of meeting with the upcoming issue of our journal.

Editor-in-chief Sergey Dzemeshkevich,

MD, Professor