Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery was founded in 1994. It is a professional academic journal on chest and cardiovascular surgery supervised by the Ministry of Education, hosted by West China Hospital, Sichuan University. It mainly reports on the clinical and basic scientific research achievements, the clinical experience of diagnosis and treatment, the improvement of surgical technique, the academic contention and the opinions from experts which have important significance to the clinic, tracking cutting-edge disciplines and dynamics at home and abroad in this field, forming a combination of clinical and basic.

Comprehensively, it reflects the clinical treatments and basic research results of thoracic cardiovascular surgery in China, such as complicated congenital heart disease, coronary artery bypass grafting, cardiopulmonary transplantation, cardiopulmonary bypass, myocardial protection, heart valve tissue engineering, thoracic cardiovascular surgery without blood transfusion or reduce blood transfusion, lung cancer and clinical, esophageal surgery and research, minimally invasive surgery, etc.