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 2011
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
Robotic Cardiac Surgery by 2031, W Randolph Chitwood
Rosuvastatin Therapy Does Not Affect Serum MMP-13 or TIMP-1 Levels in Hypercholesterolemic Patients, Cihan Cevik, Kenneth Nugent, Gary Meyerrose, Mohammad Otahbachi, Cemil Izgi, Mark Lyte, and R David Fish
Sirolimus-Eluting Stents versus Bare-Metal Stents in Routine Clinical Use, Muhammad Munir, Jonathan Aliota, Amany Ahmed, Anwarullah Mohammed, Vei Vei Lee, Macarthur A Elayda, and James M Wilson
Surgical management of double-chambered right ventricle in adults., Ahmad K Darwazah, Mohammed Eida, Vivian Bader, and Mohammed Khalil
Takayasu Arteritis with Coronary Aneurysms Causing Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Young Man, Sana Ouali, Slim Kacem, Fatma Ben Fradj, Rim Gribaa, Elyes Naffeti, Fahmi Remedi, Chedia Laaoueni, and Essia Boughzela
The Evaluation and Management of Electrical Storm, Michael Eifling, Mehdi Razavi, and Ali Massumi
Troubleshooting Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: An Overview for Physicians Who Are Not Electrophysiologists, Mohammad Saeed
Usefulness of the Echocardiographic Multi-Parameter Score (EMPS) in Evaluating Left Ventricular Global Heart Function, Bingyuan Zhou, Junhua Yang, Xiangjun Yang, Yongming He, Caiming Zhao, Sudan Xu, and Huifeng Wang
Submissions from 2009
Following the "herb", Gerald W Mank
Migraine and vasodepressor syncope in a large family, Robert D Paisley, Harvinder S Arora, Alireza Nazeri, Ali Massumi, and Mehdi Razavi