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 2012
Intramyocardial Hematoma From Blunt Trauma Mimicking Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, Meta Linda Mobula, Sammy Zakaria, and Glenn A Hirsch
Long-Term Results of Aortic Banding for Complex Infrarenal Neck Anatomy and Type I Endoleak After Endovascular Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair, Zvonimir Krajcer, Kathryn G Dougherty, and Igor D Gregoric
Management of Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump Entrapment: A Case Report and Review of the Literature, Gerard J Fitzmaurice, Anton Collins, and Haralambos Parissis
Medical Education on the Brink: 62 Years of Front-Line Observations and Opinions, Herbert L Fred
Mid-Aortic Syndrome in a 3-Year-Old Girl Successfully Treated by Aorto-Aortic Grafting and Renal Artery Implantation Into the Graft, Tanja Kersnik Levart and Tomislav Klokocovnik
Nitinol Thermoreactive Clips for Secondary Sternal Closure in Cases of Noninfective Sternal Dehiscence, Arif Gucu, Faruk Toktas, Cuneyt Eris, Yusuf Ata, and Tamer Turk
Peripartum Cardiomyopathy: A Review, Anirban Bhattacharyya, Sukhdeep Singh Basra, Priyanka Sen, and Biswajit Kar
Potential Role of Plasma Myeloperoxidase Level in Predicting Long-Term Outcome of Acute Myocardial Infarction, Mehmet Gungor Kaya, Ridvan Yalcin, Kaan Okyay, Fatih Poyraz, Nilufer Bayraktar, Hatice Pasaoglu, Bulent Boyaci, and Atiye Cengel
Pulmonary Resection in the 21st Century: The Role of Robotics, Robert J Cerfolio
Restoration of Microcirculatory Patency After Myocardial Infarction: Results of Current Coronary Interventional Strategies and Techniques, Marlos R Fernandes, R David Fish, John Canales, Jonathan Aliota, Guilherme V Silva, Emerson C Perin, Macarthur A Elayda, and James M Wilson
The History of Art Versus the Art of Surgery, Ugo Filippo Tesler
Transcatheter Retrieval and Repositioning of Embolized Stent From the Right Ventricle in an Infant, Daisuke Kobayashi, Harinder R Singh, Daniel R Turner, Thomas J Forbes, and Srinath T Gowda
Submissions from 2011
A Dosing Study of Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cells for Transendocardial Injection in a Pig Model of Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease, Guilherme V Silva, Marlos R Fernandes, Cristiano O Cardoso, Ricardo R Sanz, Edie M Oliveira, Pilar Jimenez-Quevedo, Javier Lopez, Franca S Angeli, Yi Zheng, James T Willerson, and Emerson C Perin
Cardiac Dysfunction after Cancer Treatment, Michael S Ewer, Sandra M Swain, Daniela Cardinale, Anecita Fadol, and Thomas M Suter
Cardiac Surgery: A Century of Progress, Allen B Weisse
CD34-Positive Stem Cells in the Treatment of Heart and Vascular Disease in Human Beings, Alexander R Mackie and Douglas W Losordo
Central Venous Pressure and Pulmonary Capillary Wedge Pressure, Tony S Ma, Biykem Bozkurt, David Paniagua, Biswajit Kar, Kumudha Ramasubbu, and Carl F Rothe
Closure of a Para-valvular Aortic Leak with the Use of 2 AMPLATZER Devices and Real-Time 2− and 3-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography, Kurt S Hoffmayer, Christian Zellner, Damon M Kwan, Suma Konety, Elyse Foster, Phillip Moore, and Yerem Yeghiazarians
Endovascular repair of aortoesophageal and aortobronchial fistulae., Roberto Chiesa, Andrea Kahlberg, Yamume Tshomba, Enrico M Marone, Massimiliano M Marrocco-Trischitta, and Germano Melissano
Heart Disease and Hormones, Stephanie A Coulter
Heterogeneity of Left Ventricular Signal Characteristics in Response to Acute Vagal Stimulation During Ventricular Fibrillation in Dogs, Alireza Nazeri, MacArthur A Elayda, Lubomir Dragnev, Christopher M Frank, Jihong Qu, Valtino X Afonso, Abdi Rasekh, Mohammad Saeed, Jie Cheng, Mossaab Shuraih, Ali Massumi, and Mehdi Razavi
High-Risk Diabetic Patients with Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Disease: Characteristics and Medium-Term Outcomes of Percutaneous Revascularization with Drug-Eluting Stents, Jose F Díaz Fernández, Carlos Sánchez González, Manuel Jiménez Navarro, Juan C Fernández Guerrero, Antonio Gómez Menchero, Juan H Alonso Briales, Rosa María Cardenal Piris, Juan Herrador, Manuel Guzmán Herrera, and Jose M Hernández García
Internal Medicine Problems as They Present to the Cardiologist, Ira Martin Grais
Interposition Grafting of Large Extracranial Carotid Aneurysm, Marlous Huyzer, Michel M P J Reijnen, Johannes E M Sybrandy, Jacob Buth, and Clark J Zeebregts
Left Atrial Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Creating the “Box Lesion” with a Bipolar Radiofrequency Device, Leonid Sternik, Hartzel V Schaff, David Luria, Michael Glikson, Alexander Kogan, Ateret Malachy, Maya First, and Ehud Raanani