We would like to thank external reviewers and editors of Heart, Vessels and Transplantation who contributed to double-blind peer-review process for the December 2020 issue and ahead of print articles
Gulmira Kudaiberdieva
Editor-in-Chief
Heart, Vessels and Transplantation
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			 External reviewers  | 
			
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			 Marat Aripov, KZ  | 
			
			 Scientific Research Center for Cardiac Surgery and Organ Transplantation, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan  | 
		
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			 Erdi Babayigit, TR  | 
			
			 Cardiology Department, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey  | 
		
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			 Diyar Beguzhinov, KZ  | 
			
			 Almaty, Kazakhstan  | 
		
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			 Piotr Buchta , GE 
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			 Department of Electrophysiology, University of Leipzig, Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany  | 
		
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			 Semen Chevgun, KG, RU  | 
			
			 International School of Medicine, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Moscow, Russia  | 
		
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			 Anca Dan, RO  | 
			
			 Syncope Unit, Spitalul Clinic Colentina – CardiologieSos, Bucaharest, Romania  | 
		
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			 Georghio Dan, RO  | 
			
			 Colentina University Hospital, Medicine Faculty, University of Medicine “Carol Davila”, Bucharest, Romania  | 
		
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			 Paul Fedak, CA  | 
			
			 Section of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiac Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada  | 
		
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			 David Frame, USA  | 
			
			 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA  | 
		
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			 Mahesh Kumar Khanal, BA  | 
			
			 Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences (BIHS), Dhaka, Bangladesh  | 
		
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			 Giuseppe Iuliano, IT  | 
			
			 Cardiovascular Department, University Studio Salerno, Salerno, Italy  | 
		
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			 Chaitanya Madamanchi, USA  | 
			
			 Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women`s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA  | 
		
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			 Peter Macfarlane, UK  | 
			
			 Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK  | 
		
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			 Birhan Ormanov, KZ  | 
			
			 AN Syzganov SRI of Surgery, Almaty, Kazakhstan  | 
		
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			 Gurbet Ozge Mert, TR  | 
			
			 Cardiology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey  | 
		
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			 Gopi Krishna Panicker, IN  | 
			
			 Cardiac Safety Services, Quintiles, Mumbai, India.  | 
		
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			 Costantina Prota, IT  | 
			
			 Cardiology Division, Fatebenfratelli Hospital, Benevento, Italy  | 
		
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			 Alexandre Siciliano, BR  | 
			
			 Department of Cardiac Surgery, National Institute of Cardiology, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  | 
		
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			 Emily C Somers, USA  | 
			
			 Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA  | 
		
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			 Richard Sutton, UK  | 
			
			 National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London, UK  | 
		
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			 Zairbek Syrgaev, KG  | 
			
			 SRI of Heart Surgery and Organ Transplantation, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan  | 
		
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			 Philippe Taghji, BE  | 
			
			 Department of Cardiology, Sint– Jan Hospital, Bruges, Belgium  | 
		
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			 Zhenisgul Tlegenova, KZ  | 
			
			 Marat Ospanov West Kazakhstan University, Aktobe, Kazakhstan  | 
		
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			 Sergey Yakovlev, RU  | 
			
			 Clinical Hospital named IV Davydovsky; Russian Oncological Center named after Blokhin NN, Moscow, Russia  | 
		
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			 International editors  | 
			
			 
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			 Ayan Abdrakhmanov, KZ  | 
			
			 Scientific Research Center for Cardiac Surgery and Organ Transplantation, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan  | 
		
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			 Kuat Abzaliyev, KZ  | 
			
			 SRI of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Kazakh Medical University of Continued Education, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan  | 
		
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			 Serik Alimbaev, KZ  | 
			
			 Scientific Research Center for Cardiac Surgery and Organ Transplantation, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan  | 
		
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			 Sok Sithikun Bun, FR, MO  | 
			
			 Pasteur University Hospital, Nice, France, Monaco  | 
		
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			 Aliiya Kadyrova, KG  | 
			
			 Department of radiodiagnostics, KSMA, National Center of Oncology, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan  | 
		
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			 Baktybek Kojonazarov, GE  | 
			
			 Institute for Lung Health (ILH), University of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI), German Center for Lung Research, Giessen, Germany  | 
		
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			 Panagiotis Koudounis, GR  | 
			
			 Red Cross Hospital, Athens, Greece  | 
		
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			 Andrea Rocha de Lorenzo, BR  | 
			
			 National Institute of Cardiology, University Hospital Clementino Fraga Filho, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  | 
		
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			 Akbay Sarybaev, KG  | 
			
			 National Center of Cardiology and Therapy, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan  | 
		
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			 Jeffrey Shuhaiber, USA  | 
			
			 Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA  | 
		
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			 Adam Stanczyk, PL  | 
			
			 Ward of Internal Diseases, Norbert Barlicki Memorial Teaching Hospital N 1, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland  | 
		
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			 Federico Tacconi, IT  | 
			
			 Tor Vergara University, Rome, Italy  | 
		
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			 Nurlan Brimkulov, KG  | 
			
			 Department of Family Medicine, Kyrgyz State Medical Academy, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan  | 
		
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			 Associate editors  | 
			
			 
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			 Jamalbek Ashimov, KG  | 
			
			 SRI of Heart Surgery and Organ Transplantation, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan  | 
		
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			 Ljuba Bacharova, SK  | 
			
			 International Laser Center, Institute of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia  | 
		
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			 Oben Baysan, TR  | 
			
			 Guven Hospital, Ankara, Turkey  | 
		
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			 Samuel Bell, USA  | 
			
			 GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc., Boston, MA, U.S.A.  | 
		
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			 Manuel Castella, ES  | 
			
			 Clinic of Cardiac Surgery, University Clinic Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain  | 
		
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			 Seitkhan Djoshibaev, KZ  | 
			
			 Research Clinic Cardiac Surgery and Transplantation, Taraz, Kazakhstan  | 
		
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			 Ainagul Dzhumagulova, KG  | 
			
			 National Center of Cardiology and Therapy, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan  | 
		
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			 Eric Eisenstein, USA  | 
			
			 Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC, U.S.A.  | 
		
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			 Bulent Gorenek, TR  | 
			
			 Department of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Eskisehir, Turkey  | 
		
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			 Samat Kadyrov, AUS  | 
			
			 Mimo, Vienna, Austria  | 
		
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			 Taalaibek Kudaiberdiev, KG  | 
			
			 SRI of Heart Surgery and Organ Transplantation, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan  | 
		
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			 Cristiane Lamas, BR  | 
			
			 National Institute of Cardiology, Evandro Chagas National Institute of Infectious Diseases and UNIGRANRIO, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  | 
		
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			 Jonathan Lipton, AU  | 
			
			 Clinic of Electrophysiology, Melbourne Royal Hospital and Department of Cardiology, Royal Hobart Hospital, University of Tasmania, Melbourne, Hobart, Australia  | 
		
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			 Pascal Meier, UK, CH  | 
			
			 Imperial College, Royal Brompton Hospital, London UK, Geneva, Switzerland  | 
		
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			 Mykhaylo Sorokivskyy, UA  | 
			
			 Department of Functional Diagnostics, Regional Center of Cardiology, Lviv and Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Danylo Hlatsky Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine  | 
		
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			 Yury Pya, KZ  | 
			
			 National Research Cardiac Surgery Center, Astana, Kazakhstan  | 
		

