Cardiovascular Surgery Supplement

Cardiac Surgery is a tremendously important therapeutic modality in advanced cardiac care. To this day, the long-term vital and functional outcomes of common cardiac surgical operations—whether congenital, coronary, valvular, heart failure, or aortic procedures—remain largely unmatched by nonsurgical approaches. Furthermore, cardiac surgical translational investigators repeatedly contribute seminal advances in various fields of cardiovascular therapeutics, both within and beyond the scope of surgery per se. Although Circulation regularly publishes …