For 50 years, The Texas Heart Institute Journal has been published by The Texas Heart Institute as part of its medical education program. Our continuously published, peer-reviewed journal enjoys a global audience of physicians, scientists, and healthcare professionals who are contributing to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Beginning in 2023, the official name is The Texas Heart Institute Journal.
Historically, The Journal was printed under the name of Cardiovascular Diseases from 1974 through 1981 (ISSN 0093-3546). The name was changed to Texas Heart Institute Journal in 1982 and was printed through 2013 (ISSN 0730-2347). In 2014, The Journal moved to online-only publication. The Journal is indexed by Index Medicus/MEDLINE and by other indexing and abstracting services worldwide. Our full archive is available at PubMed Central.
As of July 15, 2023, The Texas Heart Institute Journal is a fully Open Access publication that enables authors to retain copyright under an appropriate Creative Commons license (CC BY or CC BY-NC). This collection showcases a small selection of the journal archive from 2011- current.
Submissions from 2016
Cardiac Papillary Fibroelastoma: Single-Institution Experience with 14 Surgical Patients, Walid K Abu Saleh, Odeaa Al Jabbari, Basel Ramlawi, and Michael J Reardon
Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia: Moving Beyond Palliation, Nilesh Mathuria
Comparative Efficacy of Nebivolol and Metoprolol to Prevent Tachycardia-Induced Cardiomyopathy in a Porcine Model, Alireza Nazeri, MacArthur A Elayda, Ana Maria Segura, Raymond F Stainback, Joanna Nathan, Vei-Vei Lee, Christina Bove, Luiz Sampaio, Brian Grace, Ali Massumi, and Mehdi Razavi
Coronary-Cameral Fistula Caused by Guidewire Trauma and Resolved by Coil Embolization, Suvro Banerjee and Soumya Patra
Cutting the Cost of Health Care: The Physician's Role, Herbert L Fred
Durability of the Starr-Edwards Heart Valve: Early Decisions Led to Successful Results, Albert Starr and Gary L Grunkemeier
Emergency Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Indications and Outcomes from 2003 through 2013, Erin M Schumer, John H Chaney, Jaimin R Trivedi, Paul L Linsky, Matthew L Williams, and Mark S Slaughter
Endocarditis and Incomplete Endothelialization 12 Years after Amplatzer Septal Occluder Deployment, Allan K Nguyen, Brian A Palafox, Joanne P Starr, Richard N Gates, and Farbouch Berdjis
Endovascular Treatment of Superior Vena Cava Syndrome via Balloon-in-Balloon Catheter Technique with a Palmaz Stent, Wassim Shatila, Abdelkader Almanfi, Mehran Massumi, Kathryn G Dougherty, Dhaval R Parekh, and Neil E Strickman
"Eyeing" the Cause of Heart Failure: Visible Telltale Clues, Herbert L Fred and Manoj Thangam
Fresh Autologous Pericardium to Reconstruct the Pulmonary Valve at the Annulus When Tetralogy of Fallot Requires a Transannular Patch at Midterm, Shantanu Pande, Jugal K Sharma, C R Siddartha, Anubhav Bansal, Surendra K Agarwal, Prabhat Tewari, and Aditya Kapoor
Longitudinal Changes in Vascular Risk Markers and Mortality Rates among a Latino Population with Hypertension, Matthew C Pflederer, Carlin S Long, Brenda Beaty, Edward P Havranek, Philip S Mehler, Angela Keniston, and Mori J Krantz
Long-Term Follow-Up Study of Temporary Tricuspid Valve Detachment as Approach to VSD Repair without Consequent Tricuspid Dysfunction, Gianluca Lucchese, Lucia Rossetti, Giuseppe Faggian, and Giovanni B Luciani
Pacemaker Troubleshooting: Common Clinical Scenarios, Payam Safavi-Naeini and Mohammad Saeed
Periodontitis in Chronic Heart Failure., Hanna Fröhlich, Kristina Herrmann, Jennifer Franke, Alamara Karimi, Tobias Täger, Rita Cebola, Hugo A Katus, Christian Zugck, and Lutz Frankenstein
Sickle Cell Disease with Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease: Long-Term Outcomes in 5 Children, Glen J Iannucci, Olufolake A Adisa, Matthew E Oster, Michael McConnell, and William T Mahle
Skepticism, the Trained Eye, and the Telltale Clue, Ethan A Natelson
The Mosaic Mitral Valve Bioprosthesis: A Long-Term Clinical and Hemodynamic Follow-Up, Michele Celiento, Stefania Blasi, Andrea De Martino, Stefano Pratali, Aldo D Milano, and Uberto Bortolotti
Thirty-Three Years of Dizzy Medical Writing and Editing: A Meta-Analysis and the Hall of Shame, Herbert L Fred and Mark S Scheid
Two Cases of Transcatheter Closure of Central Aortopulmonary Shunts: One with an Amplatzer Duct Occluder II and One with an Amplatzer Vascular Plug I, Ahmet Celebi, Ilker Kemal Yucel, Sevket Balli, and Mehmet Kucuk
Underuse of Oral Anticoagulants for Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation: Past, Present, and Future, Ramsey M Wehbe and Ajay Yadlapati
Venous Myocardial Infarction in an Infant with Obstructed Totally Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage and Coronary Sinus Ostial Atresia, Deepa Prasad, James P Strainic, Khyati Pandya, Peter C Kouretas, and Ravi C Ashwath
Submissions from 2015
Banning the Handshake from Healthcare Settings is not the Solution to Poor Hand Hygiene, Herbert L Fred
Combined Retrograde/Antegrade Approach to Transcatheter Closure of an Aortic Paravalvular Leak, Abdulla A Damluji, Husnu E Kaynak, and Alan W Heldman
Down Syndrome with Complete Atrioventricular Septal Defect, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, and Pulmonary Vein Stenosis, Guruprasad Mahadevaiah, Manoj Gupta, and Ravi Ashwath