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
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
Management of Acute Regurgitation in Left-Sided Cardiac Valves, Nahush A Mokadam, Karen K Stout, and Edward D Verrier
Mechanical Behavior of Fully Expanded Commercially Available Endovascular Coronary Stents, Josip Tambaca, Suncica Canic, Mate Kosor, R David Fish, and David Paniagua
Medical Professionalism Meets Generation X: A Perfect Storm?, Charles S Bryan
Micro-Ultrasonographic Imaging of Atherosclerotic Progression and Correlation with Inflammatory Markers in Apolipoprotein-E Knockout Mice, Rong-Juan Li, Ya Yang, Yan-Hong Wang, Jin-Jie Xie, Li Song, Zheng Wang, Yao-Zhong Zhang, Yan-Wen Qin, Zhi-An Li, and Xiao-Shan Zhang
Onco-Cardiology: The Time Has Come, Edward T H Yeh
On Getting What We Deserve: Differeing Perspectives, Herbert L Fred
Paclitaxel Induces Thrombomodulin Downregulation in Human Aortic Endothelial Cells, Huang-Joe Wang, Te-Ling Lu, Haimei Huang, and Huey-Chun Huang
Prehypertension: A Meta-Analysis of the Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Predictors of Progression, Xiaofan Guo, Liling Zou, Xingang Zhang, Jue Li, Liqiang Zheng, Zhaoqing Sun, Jian Hu, Nathan D Wong, and Yingxian Sun
Reflections on a Heart Surgery Career with Insights for Western-Trained Medical Specialists in Developing Countries, Sami S Kabbani