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
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, et al.
Venovenous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation to Facilitate Removal of Endobronchial Tumors, Bryan Miles, Lucian A Durham, Jonathan Kurman, et al.
Submissions from 2020
Alcohol Ablation of Cardiac Tissues Quantified and Evaluated Using CIELAB Euclidean Distances, Ashley Rook, Mathews M John, Allison Post, et al.
Altered Mental Status and Hyponatremia After 20 Hours of Amiodarone Therapy, Andrea Qi, John C Moscona, Justin Reed, et al.
Atrial Pacing in Wide-Complex Rhythm, Yang Yang, John Allison, Mark Pollet, et al.
Atrial Pacing in Wide-Complex Rhythm, Yang Yang, John Allison, Mark Pollet, et al.
Benefit of Contact Force-Guided Catheter Ablation for Treating Premature Ventricular Contractions, Ziming Zhao, Xiaowei Liu, Lianjun Gao, et al.
Cardiac Involvement by Burkitt Lymphoma in a 49-Year-Old Man, Kainat Khalid, Nadeen Faza, Nasser M Lakkis, et al.
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, et al.
Importance of Persistent Right-to-Left Shunt After Patent Foramen Ovale Closure in Cryptogenic Stroke Patients, Lu He, Gesheng Cheng, Yajuan Du, et al.
Incidental Cannulation of Left Ventricular Thebesian Vein, Kalyan Chakravarthy Potu, Jay N Patel, Majd Ibrahim, et al.
Interventricular Septal Rupture in a 62-Year-Old Man With Familial Amyloid Polyneuropathy, Stefano Pidello, Erika Simonato, Fulvio Orzan, et al.
Mechanical Prosthetic Valve Sparing for Aortic Root Abscess Complicated by Infective Endocarditis, Ahmed Ahmed, Ayman Ammar, Yasser Elnahas, et al.
Modified Danielson Technique for Prosthetic Aortic Valve Endocarditis and Aortoventricular Discontinuity, Gianfranco Filippone, Claudia Calia, Mario Finazzo, et al.
Modified Pull-Through Technique for Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Upgrades in Patients with Occluded Access Veins, Guram Imnadze, Khaled Awad, Wolfgang Kranig, et al.
Obstruction of 2 Coronary Arteries from Different Causes Immediately after Transapical Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, Umihiko Kaneko, Ryuji Koshima, Hirosato Doi, et al.
Optimizing P2 Neochordal Length and Stability in Mitral Valve Repair With Use of a Polypropylene Loop, Anil Ozen, Ertekin Utku Unal, Hamdi Mehmet Ozbek, et al.
Our Duty of Care in Pandemic Times, Perryn Ng
Predicting Quality of Clinical Performance From Cardiology Fellowship Applications, Michael W Cullen, Thomas J Beckman, Kristine M Baldwin, et al.
Prognostic Value of 6-Minute Walk Distance in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: a Veterans Affairs Prospective Study, Tarun W Dasari, Bhavin Patel, Siddharth A Wayangankar, et al.
Robotic-Assisted Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Through Transradial Approach: Experience in 4 Patients with Complex Lesions, Amornpol Anuwatworn, Muhammad Ali Kahn, Tomasz Stys, et al.
Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography in Cardio-Oncology and Beyond, Raymundo A Quintana, Linh P Bui, Rohit Moudgil, et al.