The journal emphasises contributions from European countries and is aimed at cardiac and thoracic surgeons, cardiac and pulmonary physiologists, cardio-thoracic anaesthesiologists, cardiac and pulmonary anatomists and pathologists, cardiologists and pulmonary physicians. The tables of contents and abstracts are available for free via the Internet but the full-text of the journal is only available to subscribers. It is possible to search the full-text for free and receive the table of contents of the current issue via email. The journal is published by Elsevier for the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, with assistance from Stanford University Libraries' Highwire Press. It features discussion groups for areas of heart surgery, articles, advances, reviews, case presentations, meetings, jobs, and a learning centre for the lay person providing information on common cardiovascular diseases.
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Published by Mosby-Year Book Inc., and provided on the web by the Cardiothoracic Surgery Network.