BMC Cardiovascular Disorders is calling for submissions to our Collection on Adult congenital heart disease (ACHD). Millions of people are living with ACHD as more children with congenital heart disease reach adulthood. ACHD encompasses a wide range of structural and functional heart abnormalities, including blood vessel (e.g. aortic coarctation, aortic and pulmonary artery stenosis, patent ductus arteriosus, transposition of the great arteries and anomalous pulmonary venous return), heart valve (e.g. bicuspid aortic valve disease, Ebstein’s anomaly and mitral valve prolapse), and septal defects (e.g. atrial septal defect, patent foramen ovale and ventricular septal defect), that develop before birth but are not diagnosed until adulthood. 

In support of SDG 3: Good Health & Wellbeing, BMC Cardiovascular Disorders is launching a new Collection on Adult congenital heart disease to bring together basic and clinical research to develop our understanding of ACHD and improve the care and outcomes for patients living with this condition. We welcome submissions on topics such as:

• Advances in diagnosis and imaging
• Long-term outcomes and quality of life
• Management of arrhythmias and heart failure
• Innovative treatments and surgical techniques

Living with ACHD can present significant challenges for patients, including the need for lifelong monitoring, multiple surgeries, and a higher risk of heart failure as well as other cardiovascular complications. We hope this Collection can serve as a platform for researchers to showcase the latest advances in the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of ACHD.

Elaheh Malakan Rad: Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Dr Elaheh Malakan Rad, MD, FACC, is a senior professor of pediatric interventional cardiology at Children's Medical Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. She is a Senior Editorial Board Member of BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, a member of the Iranian National Board of Examiners of Pediatric Cardiology and Medical Education, and a GBD collaborator. With over 25 years of academic experience, her expertise in pediatric cardiology includes teaching, research, and patient care. She has over 80 published papers in peer-reviewed journals and holds two joint provisional patents in the US Patent Office for transcatheter devices in congenital heart disease interventions.

Christoph Sinning: University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg, Germany

Dr Christoph Sinning is senior physician at the Department of Cardiology at the University Heart & Vascular Center Hamburg, Germany. His main areas of work are cardiovascular imaging with a focus on echocardiography, treatment of adults with congenital heart disease, and cardiac devices like pacemakers and ICDs. His current scientific work is focusing on the use of echocardiography in detecting the outcome of patients undergoing EP procedures and improving detection of candidates for cardiac resynchronization therapy. Another area of focus for his scientific work is the outcome of advanced heart failure in adults with congenital heart disease.

This Collection welcomes submission of original Research Articles. Should you wish to submit a different article type, please read our submission guidelines to confirm that type is accepted by the journal. Articles for this Collection should be submitted via our submission system, Snapp. During the submission process you will be asked whether you are submitting to a Collection, please select "Adult congenital heart disease" from the dropdown menu.

Articles will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and are subject to all of the journal’s standard policies. Articles will be added to the Collection as they are published.

The Guest Editors have no competing interests with the submissions which they handle through the peer review process. The peer review of any submissions for which the Guest Editors have competing interests is handled by another Editorial Board Member who has no competing interests.

Submission Status: Open   |   Submission Deadline: 24 April 2024