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 2020
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
Predicting Quality of Clinical Performance From Cardiology Fellowship Applications, Michael W Cullen, Thomas J Beckman, Kristine M Baldwin, Gregory J Engstler, Jay Mandrekar, Christopher G Scott, and Kyle W Klarich
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, David Alexander, Yan D Zhao, JoAnn Schlegel, Cheuk Leung, Pedro Lozano, Faisal Latif, and Udho Thadani
Robotic-Assisted Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Through Transradial Approach: Experience in 4 Patients with Complex Lesions, Amornpol Anuwatworn, Muhammad Ali Kahn, Tomasz Stys, Marian Petrasko, and Adam Stys
Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography in Cardio-Oncology and Beyond, Raymundo A Quintana, Linh P Bui, Rohit Moudgil, Nicolas Palaskas, Saamir Hassan, Jun-Ichi Abe, Elie Mouhayar, Syed Wamique Yusuf, Antonieta Hernandez, and Jose Banchs
Surgical Endoepicardial Linear Ablation for Ventricular Tachycardia With Postinfarction Left Ventricular Aneurysm, Changcheng Liu, Zhaoping Su, Liangshan Wang, Bo Li, Jin Wang, Yang Yu, and Chengxiong Gu
The Comfort of Destiny, Jeremy A Ross
Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement for Treating Native Mitral Valve Disease: Current Status, Yan Chen, Junjie Hu, Shunqiang Wu, San Zhang, Kaiqin Wu, Wenli Wang, and Yongxin Zhou
Unusual Cause of Heart Failure in a Patient with Marfan Syndrome: A Late Complication of Bioprosthetic Valved Graft Replacement, Prerna B Bansal, Hari P Chaliki, Kantha R Kolla, Roger L Click, and Alberto Pochettino
Submissions from 2019
Adam Christian Thebesius' Channels into the Human Heart: the Thebesian Veins and the Thebesian Valve, Magdalena Mazurak and Jacek Kusa
Anomalous Origin of the Right Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery in a Neonate with Turner Syndrome and Aortic Arch Hypoplasia, Bryan P Stefek, Jason R Imundo, and Joseph B Clark
An Unusual Case of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in Pheochromocytoma, Paolo Angelini
Cardiac Replacement in Our Lifetime, Jack G Copeland
Chicken-Fried Steak Changed My Outlook on Medicine, Michael J Lehner
Clinical Evaluation of Exercise Capacity in Adults with Systemic Right Ventricle, Beata Rog, Kinga Salapa, Magdalena Okolska, Natalia Dluzniewska, Piotr Werynski, Piotr Podolec, and Lidia Tomkiewicz-Pajak
Effectiveness of Artificial Neochordae Implantation in Tricuspid Valve Repair, Salih Salihi, H Tarik Kiziltan, Ahmad Huraibat, Askin Ali Korkmaz, Ibrahim Kara, and Mustafa Guden
Effect of Percutaneous Suction Thromboembolectomy on Improved Right Ventricular Function, Akbarshakh Akhmerov, Heidi Reich, James Mirocha, and Danny Ramzy