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 2023
Coronary Stent Off-Wire Dislodgement: Case Report of a Rare Complication, Meng-Ying Lu and Kuang-Te Wang
Delayed Giant Pseudoaneurysm With Left-to-Right Shunt Following Postinfarct Ventricular Septal Perforation Repair, Yojiro Machii, Makoto Taoka, Yuki Hayashi, Atsushi Harada, Keita Kamata, and Masashi Tanaka
Effects of COVID-19 on the Autonomic Cardiovascular System: Heart Rate Variability and Turbulence in Recovered Patients, Sedat Taş and Ümmü Taş
Idiopathic Dilatation of the Right Atrium: Diagnosis and Management, Ljiljana Rankovic-Nicic, Milica Dragicevic-Antonic, Goran Loncar, Masa Petrovic, Zelimir Antonic, and Milovan Bojic
Incidence, Risk Score Performance, and In-Hospital Outcomes of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery, Matthew W Segar, Alexander Marzec, Mehdi Razavi, Karen Mullins, Joanna E Molina-Razavi, Subhasis Chatterjee, Alexis E Shafii, Jennifer R Cozart, Marc R Moon, Abdi Rasekh, and Mohammad Saeed
Increased Plasma Non-High-Density Lipoprotein Levels and Poor Coronary Collateral Circulation in Patients With Stable Coronary Artery Disease, Fatih Sivri and Banu Öztürk Ceyhan
Kounis Syndrome Associated With the Use of Diclofenac, Ana V Pejcic, Milos N Milosavljevic, Slobodan Jankovic, Goran Davidovic, Marko M Folic, and Nevena D Folic
Meta-Analysis of the Association Between Atrial Fibrillation, Hypertension, Sleep-Disordered Breathing, and Wake-Up Stroke, Jin Zhou, Jing Xu, Aijuan Cheng, Yimiti Kadier, Xiaoli Liang, Maimaitijiang Mutailipu, and Shan Sun
Mitral Valve Surgery in Patients With an Implanted Amplatzer Septal Occluder: A Review of 2 Cases, Ufuk Sayar and Nurel Ertürk
Optimized Catheter System Demonstrates Utility for Endomyocardial Delivery of Cardiopoietic Stem Cells in Target Patients With Heart Failure, Jozef Bartunek and Andre Terzic
Pearls in Anticoagulation Management for Patients With Left Ventricular Assist Devices, Ellen Yin
Postpartum Detection of Diastolic Dysfunction and Nondipping Blood Pressure Profile in Women With Preeclampsia, Marwa Sayed, Mariam Rashed, Ahmed M Abbas, Amr Youssef, and Mohamed Abdel Ghany
Recovery From the Impact of COVID-19 on Treatment Times and Clinical Outcomes of Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: An Interim Analysis, Abdelrahman Ali, Thomas Schirmer, Francis J Kiernan, Bryan Piccirillo, Joseph Ingrassia, Talhat Azemi, Immad Sadiq, Daniel B Fram, Asad Rizvi, Saurabh Joshi, Jeffrey Mather, and Raymond G McKay
Recovery of Lung Function After 149 Days on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for COVID-19, Orlando R Suero, Sri Kartik Valluri, Mario H Farias-Kovac, Leo Simpson, Gabriel Loor, Diana M Guerra, Jose L Diaz-Gomez, and Subhasis Chatterjee
Sex-Based Differences in the Presentation and Outcomes of Acute Pulmonary Embolism: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis, Yu Zhang, Yu Qiu, Jinming Luo, Jian Zhang, and Qingqing Yan
ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Bleeding Complications in JAK2-Negative Polycythemia, Priscilla Duran Luciano and Vanessa Sabella-Jiménez
Subcutaneous vs Transvenous Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators: A Brief Review of the Current Landscape, Henry C Zheng and Hamid Afshar
Successful Reuse of a Donor Heart, Gabriel Esmailian, Qiudong Chen, Danny Ramzy, Jon A Kobashigawa, Joanna Chikwe, and Fardad Esmailian
Surgical Reconstruction of the Anomalous Left Coronary Artery From the Pulmonary Artery, Slobodan Micovic, Petar Milacic, Miroslav Milicic, Milica Brkovic, Petar Vukovic, and Igor Zivkovic
The 2022 American College of Cardiology Expert Consensus on the Role of Nonstatin Therapies: An Expert-Guided Tour, Mini G Varughese and Christie M Ballantyne
The CardiAMP Cell Therapy for Heart Failure Trial, Carl J Pepine and Amish N Raval
The Evolution of Durable, Implantable Axial-Flow Rotary Blood Pumps, P Alex Smith, Yaxin Wang, and O H Frazier
The Impact of Bicuspid Aortic Valve Leaflet Fusion Morphology on the Ascending Aorta and on Outcomes of Aortic Valve Replacement, Steve Bibevski, Mark Ruzmetov, Juan F Plate, and Frank G Scholl
The Role of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in Patients With Bicuspid Valves in 2023, Milad El Hajj and Zvonimir Krajcer
The Texas Heart Institute Journal at 50 Years: Upholding Our Vision, Zvonimir Krajcer