Editor-in-Chief
Tibor Fülöp, MD, PhD - Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Deputy Editor
Mihály Tapolyai, MD, PhD - St. Margit Hospital, Budapest, Hungary
Associate Editors
Basic Sciences
Shao-bin Duan, MD, PhD - Central South University, Changsha, China
Monika Gööz, MD, PhD - Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Guisen Li; MD, PhD - School of Medicine, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China; Chengdu, China
Clinical Sciences
Fan He, MD, PhD – Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Sohail Abdul Salim, MD – University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Michael E. Ullian, MD – Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Guangtao Xu, MD – Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China
Critical Care and Perioperative Sciences
Csaba Kopitko, MD, PhD - Uzsoki Utcai Kórház – Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Transplantation Sciences
Karim M. Soliman, MD, PhD - Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Clinical Epidemiology, Meta-Analyses and systemic Reviews
Wisit Cheungpasitporn, MD - Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Wisit Kaewput, MD - Phramongkutklao College of Medicine, Bangkok, Thailand
Biostatistics and Statistical Consultant Advisor:
Zsolt Lengvárszky, PhD - Louisiana State University Shreveport; Shreveport, LA, USA
Editorial Board Members
Ahmed I. Adelkader, MD, PhD - Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Anand Achanti, MD - Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Adam Ryan, PhD – Medical College of Wisconsin, WI, USA
Gaetano Alfano, MD – University Hospital of Modena, Modena, Italy
Aysen Akalin, MD - Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey
Hatem Ali, MBBCh, MSc - University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire, Coventry, UK
Andrea Angioi, MD - Azienda Ospedaliera G. Brotzu, Cagliari, Italy
Petar Avramoski, MD, PhD - St. Clement of Ohrid University, Bitola; Clinical Hospital – Bitola, North Macedonia
Sebastjan Bevc, MD, PhD - University Medical Center Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia
Ana de Lurdes Agostinho Cabrita, MD - University Hospital Center of Algarve, Faro, Portugal
Jorge Castaneda, MD - Banner University Medical Center - Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Alejandro R. Chade, PhD - University of University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO, USA
Jin-Bor Chen, MD - Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Orsolya Cseprekál, MD, PhD - Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Sihem Darouich, MD, MSc - University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia
Mehul P. Dixit, MD - University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Neville R. Dossabhoy, MD - University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
Emre Eşkazan, MD - Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Istanbul, Turkey
Youssef Farag, MD, PhD, MPH- Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Liliana Gadola, MD – Universidad de la Republica Facultad de Medicina, Montevideo, Uruguay
Abduzhappar Gaipov, MD, PhD - Nazarbayev University School of Medicine, Nur-Sultan City, Kazakhstan
Xuxia Gao, MD, PhD - Capital Medical University Affiliated Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Beijing, China
Mohammed Abdel Gawad, MD, ESENeph - Newgiza University, Giza, Egypt
S. Mehrdad Hamrahian, MD - Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Nicolas Hanset, MD - University Hospital Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium
Fan He, MD, PhD - Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, P.R.China
Quan Hong, PhD - Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, P.R.China
Bo Hu, MD - Jiaxing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jiaxing University, Zhejiang, P.R. China
Jun Jiang, MD - The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Swetha Rani Kanduri, MD - Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
Mohamed Khalaf, MD - East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA
Christian A. Koch, MD, PhD, Medhabil. - University of Florida, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Shan Mou, MD, PhD - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Miklos Z. Molnar, MD, PhD - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Jolanta Malyszko, MD, PhD - Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Lovelesh Nigam, MD - Dr. H.L. Trivedi Institute of Transplantation Sciences, Asarwa, Ahmedabad, India
Surapon Nochaiwong, PharmD - Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Amy Perry - Ralph H. Johnson VAM Medical Center, Charleston, SC, USA
Ákos G. Pethő, MD, PhD – Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
László Rosiváll, MD, PhD, DSc Med, Medhabil - Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Ken Sakai, MD, PhD - Toho University Faculty Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
László Szabó, MD - University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, UK
J. Pedro Teixeira, MD - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA
Bijin Thajudeen, MD- Banner University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Charat Thongprayoon, MD- Mayo Clinic, Mankato, MN, USA
Ningning Wang, MD, PhD - The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China
Yong-Gui Wu, MD - Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
Jianyun Yan, PhD - Zhujiang Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, China
Fan Yi, PhD - Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China
Hongliang Zhang, MD, PhD - National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing, China
Zhongheng Zhang, MD - Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, P.R. China
Previous Editor:
William F. Finn, MD - University of North Carolina, USA
Funding Statement
The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.