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
Pacemaker Troubleshooting: Common Clinical Scenarios, Payam Safavi-Naeini and Mohammad Saeed
Periodontitis in Chronic Heart Failure., Hanna Fröhlich, Kristina Herrmann, Jennifer Franke, et al.
Sickle Cell Disease with Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease: Long-Term Outcomes in 5 Children, Glen J Iannucci, Olufolake A Adisa, Matthew E Oster, et al.
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, et al.
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, et al.
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, et al.
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
Early Detection of a Cavopulmonary Tumor Embolus With the Use of Transesophageal Echocardiography, Magdy M El-Sayed Ahmed, Raed M Al-Najjar, Muhammad Aftab, et al.
Echocardiographic Versus Histologic Findings in Marfan Syndrome, Xiaoyan Gu, Yihua He, Zhian Li, et al.
Efficacy of Oral Anticoagulation in Stroke Prevention among Sinus-Rhythm Patients Who Lack Left Atrial Mechanical Contraction after Cryoablation, José Martínez-Comendador, Javier Gualis, José Miguel Marcos-Vidal, et al.
Endometrial Stromal Sarcoma Metastatic from the Uterus to the Inferior Vena Cava and Right Atrium, Daniel Scher, William Nghiem, Salim Aziz, et al.
Evaluation of Previously Cannulated Radial Arteries as Patent Coronary Artery Bypass Conduits, Timothy Watson, Adele Pope, Niels van Pelt, et al.
Impact and Predictors of Noncircular Left Ventricular Outflow Tract Shapes on Estimating Aortic Stenosis Severity by Means of Continuity Equations, Nirmanmoh Bhatia, Buddhadeb Dawn, Tariq S Siddiqui, et al.
Impact of Insulin Resistance on Neointimal Tissue Proliferation after 2nd-Generation Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation, Takaaki Komatsu, Isao Yaguchi, Sachiko Komatsu, et al.
Improved Systemic Saturation After Ventricular Assist Device Implantation in a Patient With Decompensated Dextro-transposition of the Great Arteries After the Fontan Procedure, Ali Abdul Jabbar, Wayne J Franklin, Leo Simpson, et al.
Is Autologous or Heterologous Pericardium Better for Valvuloplasty? A Comparative Study of Calcification Propensity, Arthur W Bracey
Is Autologous or Heterologous Pericardium Better for Valvuloplasty? A Comparative Study of Calcification Propensity, Wen-Jian Jiang, Yong-Chao Cui, Jin-Hua Li, et al.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension, Ayhan Pektas, Rana Olgunturk, Ayhan Cevik, et al.
Microaxial Flow Left Ventricular Assist Device as a Bridge to Transplantation after LVAD Malfunction, Heidi J Reich, Aamir Shah, Babak Azarbal, et al.
Modified Maze Procedure for Atrial Fibrillation as an Adjunct to Elective Cardiac Surgery: Predictors of Mid-Term Recurrence and Echocardiographic Follow-Up, Claudia Loardi, Francesco Alamanni, Fabrizio Veglia, et al.