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 2013
Early Hemodynamic and Biochemical Changes in Overloaded Swine Ventricle.Early Hemodynamic and Biochemical Changes in Overloaded Swine Ventricle, Sandro Gelsomino, Fabiana Lucà, Chiara Nediani, et al.
Emerging Modifiable Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Obesity, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Behavior, Ann Smith Barnes
Endovascular Treatment of Acute Type B Dissection Complicating Aortic Coarctation, Seyed Ebrahim Kassaian, Kyomars Abbasi, Mehdi Mousavi, et al.
Feasibility of Temporary Biventricular Pacing After Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting in Patients With Reduced Left Ventricular Function, Daniel Y Wang, Lauren A Kelly, Marc E Richmond, et al.
Induction of Early Biomarkers in a Thrombus-Induced Sheep Model of Ischemic Heart Failure, Aluganti N Chandrakala, Pawel Kwiatkowski, Chittoor B Sai-Sudhakar, et al.
Inverted Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy and the Fundamental Diagnostic Role of Echocardiography., Arantza Manzanal, Lara Ruiz, Jose Madrazo, et al.
Low Serum Triglyceride Levels as Predictors of Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Patients, Guliz Kozdag, Gokhan Ertas, Ender Emre, et al.
Mitochondrial Cardiomyopathy: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management, Deborah E Meyers, Haseeb Ilias Basha, and Mary Kay Koenig
Osteosarcoma Tumor Thrombus: a Case Report With a Review of the Literature, Pournima Navalkele, Sarah M Jones, Jason K Jones, et al.
Perventricular device closure of residual muscular ventricular septal defects after repair of complex congenital heart defects in pediatric patients., Da Zhu, Kaiyu Tao, Qi An, et al.
Predicting Early Death After Cardiovascular Surgery by Using the Texas Heart Institute Risk Scoring Technique (Thirst), Saurabh Sanon, Vei-Vei Lee, MacArthur A Elayda, et al.
Preoperative Statin Therapy in Cardiac Surgery is More Effective in Patients Who Display Preoperative Activation of the Inflammatory System, José Martínez-Comendador, José Rubio Alvarez, Juan Sierra, et al.
Preventing Deep Wound Infection After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: a Review, Charles S Bryan and William M Yarbrough
Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes: in Search of Evidence-based, Cost-effective Screening, Paolo Angelini, Mladen I Vidovich, Christine E Lawless, et al.
Some Thoughts About the Historic Events That Led to the First Clinical Implantation of a Total Artificial Heart, Denton A Cooley
Stab Wound of the Heart With Unusual Sequelae, Peter I Praeger, Jonathan Praeger, Ahmed M Abdel-Razek, et al.
Surgical Pulmonary Embolectomy: The Resurrection of an Almost Discarded Operation, Samuel Z Goldhaber
The Diagnosis of Exclusion: an Ongoing Uncertainty, Herbert L Fred
The Pathobiology of Acute Coronary Syndromes: Clinical Implications and Central Role of the Mitochondria, L Maximilian Buja
Two Cases of Bezold-jarisch Reflex Induced by Intra-arterial Nitroglycerin in Critical Left Main Coronary Artery Stenosis, Sachin P Shah and Sergio Waxman
Submissions from 2012
Accuracy of Automated Attenuation-Based 3-Dimensional Segmentation: In the Analysis of Left Ventricular Function Compared With Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Harald Brodoefel, Ilias Tsiflikas, Ulrich Kramer, et al.
Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia as a Cause of Intracoronary Drug-Eluting-Stent Thrombosis, Zaven Sargsyan, Christopher Higgins, Sanda Alexandrescu, et al.
After Avandia: The Use of Antidiabetic Drugs in Patients With Heart Failure, Khaled I Khalaf and Heinrich Taegtmeyer
Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: Preliminary Attempt at Palliation With Use of Subselective Alcohol Ablation, Paolo Angelini, Carlo Uribe, Jorge Monge, et al.
Bioabsorbable Atrial Septal Occluder for Percutaneous Closure of Atrial Septal Defect in Children, Osman Baspinar, Mehmet Kervancioglu, Metin Kilinc, et al.