Clinics Cardiology · Hot Topics

Clinical Cardiology Topics

Clinics Cardiology highlights major and emerging focus areas in cardiovascular medicine, including coronary disease, heart failure, arrhythmias, valvular disorders, cardio-oncology, pulmonary hypertension, and preventive cardiology. These topics guide the journal’s scope for high-quality research, reviews, and clinically meaningful submissions.

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Journal-focused submissions Original articles, reviews, meta-analyses, case reports, perspectives, and imaging-based contributions.

Hot Topics in Clinics Cardiology

Clinics Cardiology welcomes high-quality scholarly submissions across major and emerging areas of cardiovascular medicine. The journal’s Hot Topics section highlights clinically important, academically relevant, and research-driven subjects that support advances in diagnosis, prevention, treatment, imaging, intervention, and long-term cardiovascular care.

We invite submissions from clinicians, researchers, academicians, imaging specialists, interventional teams, surgeons, epidemiologists, and allied cardiovascular professionals. Manuscripts should demonstrate scientific merit, ethical integrity, clarity of reporting, and meaningful relevance to cardiology practice or cardiovascular science.

Article types accepted

  • Original Research Articles
  • Review Articles
  • Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
  • Clinical Case Reports
  • Short Communications
  • Editorials and Expert Perspectives
  • Clinical Images and Imaging Challenges
  • Letters to the Editor

What the journal looks for

  • Clear cardiovascular relevance
  • Original contribution to knowledge or practice
  • Methodological and ethical soundness
  • Well-structured academic presentation
  • Practical value for readers in cardiology
  • Subspecialty or multidisciplinary importance

Coronary Artery Disease

Clinics Cardiology accepts manuscripts on coronary artery disease that enhance understanding of ischemic heart disease, coronary pathophysiology, risk assessment, prevention, diagnosis, revascularization, and long-term patient outcomes.

Heart Failure

The journal welcomes studies on acute and chronic heart failure, disease phenotypes, ventricular remodeling, biomarkers, advanced therapy, digital monitoring, multidisciplinary care pathways, and long-term outcomes.

Hypertension

Clinics Cardiology accepts manuscripts on hypertension related to screening, ambulatory monitoring, risk stratification, therapeutic control, vascular injury, target organ damage, and cardiovascular event prevention.

Cardiomyopathy

The journal invites submissions on inherited and acquired cardiomyopathies including structural, inflammatory, electrical, and genetic disease mechanisms.

Valvular Heart Disease

Clinics Cardiology welcomes manuscripts on acquired and congenital valve disorders, severity assessment, structural planning, surgical management, transcatheter interventions, and long-term valve outcomes.

Congenital Heart Disease

The journal accepts clinically relevant work in pediatric and adult congenital cardiology, postoperative follow-up, structural abnormalities, transition care, interventional treatment, and long-term survival.

Arrhythmias

Clinics Cardiology welcomes manuscripts on rhythm disorders, electrophysiology, device therapy, sudden cardiac death prevention, ablation strategies, monitoring technologies, and clinical management of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias.

Acute Coronary Syndromes

The journal encourages submissions on unstable angina, NSTEMI, STEMI, emergency cardiac care, reperfusion pathways, antithrombotic therapy, acute monitoring, and post-event secondary prevention.

Peripheral Vascular Disease

Clinics Cardiology accepts work on peripheral artery disease and vascular disorders with clear cardiovascular overlap.

Pulmonary Hypertension

The journal welcomes manuscripts on pulmonary hypertension involving diagnosis, classification, hemodynamic assessment, right ventricular function, therapeutic pathways, imaging, and special patient populations.

Cardio-Oncology

Clinics Cardiology supports research at the intersection of cardiovascular medicine and cancer care.

Geriatric Cardiology

The journal welcomes manuscripts focused on cardiovascular care in older adults, including frailty, multimorbidity, medication burden, functional status, individualized treatment decisions, quality of life, and age-adapted care pathways.

How We Accept Articles in These Topics

Clinics Cardiology considers submissions that align with the journal’s cardiovascular scope and demonstrate originality, ethical compliance, clear reporting, scientific value, and relevance to clinicians or researchers in cardiology.

1
Topic Fit Review

We assess whether the manuscript is clearly related to cardiology, cardiovascular medicine, or a relevant multidisciplinary subfield.

2
Editorial Screening

Article structure, originality, ethics declarations, scientific clarity, and journal suitability are checked by the editorial office.

3
Peer Review Assessment

Suitable manuscripts are sent for scholarly review focusing on validity, methodology, importance, reporting quality, and clinical relevance.

4
Decision and Publication

Accepted articles proceed through revision, production, proofing, and publication within the journal’s open-access workflow.