Insights in Heart Surgery: 2022

Following the success of the inaugural series, Frontiers has organized a new collection of Research Topics to highlight the latest advancements in research across the field of cardiovascular medicine, with articles from the Associate Members of our accomplished Editorial Boards. This editorial initiative of particular relevance, led by Dr. Hendrik Tevaearai Stahel, Specialty Chief Editor of the Heart Surgery section, together with Professors Robert Jeenchen Chen and Massimo Bonacchi, is focused on new insights, novel developments, current challenges, latest discoveries, recent advances, and future perspectives in the field of heart surgery. The Research Topic solicits brief, forward-looking contributions from the editorial board members that describe the state of the art, outlining, recent developments and major accomplishments that have been achieved and that need to occur to move the field forward. Authors are encouraged to identify the greatest challenges in the sub-disciplines, and how to address those challenges. The goal of this special edition Research Topic is to shed light on the progress made in the past decade in the Heart Surgery field, and on its future challenges to provide a thorough overview of the field. This article collection will inspire, inform and provide direction and guidance to researchers in the field.