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
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
EndoAnchors Minimize Endoleaks in Chimney-Graft Endovascular Repair of Juxtarenal Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms, Edgar Luis Galiñanes, Eduardo A Hernandez-Vila, and Zvonimir Krajcer
Goosebumps, Efrain Rodriguez
Incidence and Predictors of Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease and the Role of Cardiac Troponin Assays in Patients with Unstable Angina, Sushan Yang, Nirmanmoh Bhatia, Meng Xu, and John A McPherson
Minimally Invasive Endovascular Repair of Ascending Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm with Use of Local Anesthesia and Conscious Sedation, Abdelkader Almanfi and Zvonimir Krajcer
More on Waiting for Test Results: When a Doctor is the Patient, Herbert L Fred
Osborn Waves: Differential Diagnosis, Akriti G Jain, Hammad Zafar, Sanjay Jain, and Jason D'Souza
Penetrating Atherosclerotic Ulcer of the Ascending Aorta Found Incidentally in a 71-Year-Old Man, Antonino M Grande, Dario Di Perna, Adele Valentini, and Eloisa Arbustini
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Interposed Coronary Graft Stenosis after Modified Bentall Procedure in a Teenaged Boy with Takayasu Arteritis, Hiroki Ikenaga, Satoshi Kurisu, and Yasuki Kihara
Preventing a Catastrophe: Increasing Awareness of Loeys-Dietz Syndrome, Bradley S Kane and Kamran Shamsa