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 2021
Papillary Muscle Rupture After Acute Inferior Myocardial Infarction, Narayana Sarma V Singam and Shahab Ghafghazi
Routine Outpatient Electrocardiogram: What Is the Diagnosis?, Muzamil Khawaja, Vincent R J Siebert, John Allison, and Yochai Birnbaum
Single-Dose del Nido Cardioplegia Compared With Standard Cardioplegia During Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting at a Veterans Affairs Hospital, Michael R Reidy, Ernesto Jimenez, Shuab Omer, Lorraine D Cornwell, Sabrina X Runbeck, Ourania Preventza, Gabriel Loor, Todd K Rosengart, and Joseph S Coselli
Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography for Detecting Subclinical Left Ventricular Dysfunction in Patients With Familial Hypercholesterolemia, Rongjuan Li, Jinjie Xie, Bo Jiang, Zhonghua Sun, Lvya Wang, Zhaoting Leng, Yueli Wang, and Ya Yang
Sudden Cardiac Death in Athletes, Darren C Tsang and Mark S Link
Surgical Treatment of Valvular Heart Disease in Nigeria: A 6-Year Experience, Ikechukwu A Nwafor, John C Eze, and Maureen N Nwafor
Sustained Use of the Impella 50 Heart Pump Enables Bridge to Clinical Decisions in 34 Patients, Daniel W Nelson, Sakthi Sundararajan, Evan Klein, Lyle D Joyce, Lucian A Durham, David L Joyce, and Asim A Mohammed
Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation to Facilitate Removal of Endobronchial Tumors, Bryan Miles, Lucian A Durham, Jonathan Kurman, Lyle D Joyce, David W Johnstone, David Joyce, and Paul J Pearson
Submissions from 2020
Alcohol Ablation of Cardiac Tissues Quantified and Evaluated Using CIELAB Euclidean Distances, Ashley Rook, Mathews M John, Allison Post, and Mehdi Razavi
Altered Mental Status and Hyponatremia After 20 Hours of Amiodarone Therapy, Andrea Qi, John C Moscona, Justin Reed, and Thierry H Le Jemtel
Atrial Pacing in Wide-Complex Rhythm, Yang Yang, John Allison, Mark Pollet, and Yochai Birnbaum
Atrial Pacing in Wide-Complex Rhythm, Yang Yang, John Allison, Mark Pollet, and Yochai Birnbaum
Benefit of Contact Force-Guided Catheter Ablation for Treating Premature Ventricular Contractions, Ziming Zhao, Xiaowei Liu, Lianjun Gao, Yutao Xi, Qi Chen, Dong Chang, Xianjie Xiao, Jie Cheng, Yanzong Yang, Yunlong Xia, and Xiaomeng Yin
Cardiac Involvement by Burkitt Lymphoma in a 49-Year-Old Man, Kainat Khalid, Nadeen Faza, Nasser M Lakkis, and Rashed Tabbaa
Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Current Challenges and New Hope, Efstratios Koutroumpakis and David Aguilar
Histologic Abnormalities of the Ascending Aorta: Effects on Aortic Remodeling after Intracardiac Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot, Ujjwal Kumar Chowdhury, Lakshmi Kumari Sankhyan, Sheil Avneesh, Ruma Ray, Mani Kalaivani, Suruchi Hasija, and Abhinavsingh Chauhan
Importance of Persistent Right-to-Left Shunt After Patent Foramen Ovale Closure in Cryptogenic Stroke Patients, Lu He, Gesheng Cheng, Yajuan Du, and Yushun Zhang
Incidental Cannulation of Left Ventricular Thebesian Vein, Kalyan Chakravarthy Potu, Jay N Patel, Majd Ibrahim, Sujitha Sree Ketineni, and Sudhir Mungee
Interventricular Septal Rupture in a 62-Year-Old Man With Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy, Stefano Pidello, Erika Simonato, Fulvio Orzan, Simone Frea, Antonella Barreca, Mauro Rinaldi, and Massimo Boffini
Mechanical Prosthetic Valve Sparing for Aortic Root Abscess Complicated by Infective Endocarditis, Ahmed Ahmed, Ayman Ammar, Yasser Elnahas, and Mohammed Abd Al Jawad
Modified Danielson Technique for Prosthetic Aortic Valve Endocarditis and Aortoventricular Discontinuity, Gianfranco Filippone, Claudia Calia, Mario Finazzo, Fabio Fazzari, Giovanni Caruana, and Vincenzo Argano
Modified Pull-Through Technique for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Upgrades in Patients with Occluded Access Veins, Guram Imnadze, Khaled Awad, Wolfgang Kranig, and Irakli Giorgberidze
Obstruction of 2 Coronary Arteries from Different Causes Immediately after Transapical Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Umihiko Kaneko, Ryuji Koshima, Hirosato Doi, and Tsutomu Fujita
Optimizing P2 Neochordal Length and Stability in Mitral Valve Repair With Use of a Polypropylene Loop, Anil Ozen, Ertekin Utku Unal, Hamdi Mehmet Ozbek, Gorkem Yigit, and Hakki Zafer Iscan
Our Duty of Care in Pandemic Times, Perryn Ng