All speakers presenting in the oral sessions must submit full manuscripts online for review to the European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EJCTS) by 1 September 2026.
Submission of an abstract implies agreement on the part of authors to submit the full version of the manuscript to the European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EJCTS) or Interdisciplinary Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery (ICVTS) should it be accepted for Oral presentation. The same rules apply for all ESTS Prize winners. The full manuscript should be submitted to the journals before 1 September 2025. A 1-year ban from presenting at the ESTS Annual Meeting will be applied to the presenting author who fails to submit the manuscript to EJCTS/ICVTS before the deadline.
For poster and video presentations, submission to EJCTS or ICVTS is optional, but welcomed. All presentations submitted as full manuscripts may be published in EJCTS/ICVTS subject to the regular review procedure.
Note that the Program Committee will consider the previous manuscript submission record of
ALL speakers when preparing future ESTS meetings.
Submission for review of case report, and video or poster presentations to either EJCTS or
ICVTS is optional but welcomed.
Manuscripts should be prepared and submitted according to the Instructions to Authors (follow relevant link):
● EJCTS
● ICVTS
The manuscript submission is online only at: https://ejcts.oxfordjournals.org/
Please mention “Presented at the 34th European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Athens, Greece from 7-9 June, 2026 on the title page of the manuscript.
The audio-visual recording of the scientific presentations will be the property of the ESTS.