Structural Heart Diseases: Current Challenges and Opportunities
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Cardiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 19 October 2025 | Viewed by 56
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Structural heart diseases affect patients of all age groups. The structures involved and the mechanisms of disease vary broadly. This scope lends to an exciting field ripe with both challenges and opportunities. Indeed, the landscape of structural heart diseases is evolving at every stage—diagnostics, treatments, and long-term management—necessitating even closer collaboration between various stakeholders, including cardiologists, heart failure specialists, adult congenital experts, imaging specialists, surgeons, interventional cardiologists, and other healthcare providers, to ensure optimal management for any given patient.
In this Special Issue, we will produce a collection of articles summarizing different diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for patients presenting with structural heart diseases: advanced imaging, transcatheter aortic, mitral, pulmonic, and tricuspid valve therapies, management of adult congenital patients, therapies for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, medical therapies including antithrombotic regimens, left atrial appendage occlusion, operator safety, and transcatheter electrosurgery and leaflet modification. Moreover, with the push towards intervening in otherwise younger and lower-risk patients, the development of new devices and therapies for structural heart diseases will require dedicated and well-powered randomized trials with long-term follow-up and detailed end-point definitions to better understand device durability and clinical outcomes.
We hope that you will contribute to this Special Issue of JCM and help us address the challenges facing the field of structural heart diseases.
Dr. Anton Camaj
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- structural heart disease
- transcatheter
- electrosurgery
- valvular heart disease
- radiation safety
- hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
- adult congenital cardiac disease
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