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 2018
Sex-Related Differences in Outcomes of Thoracic Organ Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Daoud Daoud, Faisal H Cheema, Jeffrey A Morgan, and Gabriel Loor
Symptomatic Celiomesenteric Trunk: Variable Presentations and Outcomes in 2 Patients, Michael L Kueht, Darrel L Wu, Joseph L Mills, and Ramyar Gilani
Submissions from 2017
A Blessing, Jeremy A Ross
A Blueprint for Life and Love, Marilyn Todd
A Rare Case of Vascular Ring and Coarctation of the Aorta in Association with CHARGE Syndrome, Jonathan B Wagner, Joshua Q Knowlton, Peter Pastuszko, and Sanket S Shah
Bigeminy and a Pacemaker, Luke Cunningham and Yochai Birnbaum
Bioresorbable Scaffolds in Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Long-Term Follow-Up in 4 Patients, Santiago Jesús Camacho Freire, Antonio Enrique Gómez Menchero, Jessica Roa Garrido, Javier León Jiménez, Rosa Cardenal Piris, and José Francisco Díaz Fernández
Cancer Antigen 125 is Associated with Length of Stay in Patients with Acute Heart Failure, Hakki Kaya, Recep Kurt, Osman Beton, Ali Zorlu, Hasan Yucel, Hakan Gunes, Didem Oguz, and Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz
Clara's Final Christmas Gift, Gus W Krucke
Clinical Risk Factors for Infective Endocarditis in Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia, Vincent Bryan D Salvador, Bikash Chapagain, Astha Joshi, and Debra J Brennessel
Echocardiographic Classification and Surgical Approaches to Double-Outlet Right Ventricle for Great Arteries Arising Almost Exclusively from the Right Ventricle, Kun-Jing Pang, Hong Meng, Sheng-Shou Hu, Hao Wang, David Hsi, Zhong-Dong Hua, Xiang-Bin Pan, and Shou-Jun Li
Evaluation of Chest Pain after Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Placement, Amir Gahremanpour, Mohammad Saeed, and Yochai Birnbaum
Fare Thee Well, Dr Cooley, Herbert L Fred and James T Willerson
Left Circumflex Coronary Artery as the Culprit Vessel in ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction, Diab Ghanim, Fabio Kusniec, Wadi Kinany, Dahud Qarawani, David Meerkin, Khaled Taha, Offer Amir, and Shemy Carasso
Management of Chronic Venous Disease, Michael McArdle and Eduardo A Hernandez-Vila
Multimodal Imaging of Anomalous Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery in a 75-Year-Old Woman, Margaret M Fuchs, Rachel J Le, Michael W Cullen, Joseph J Maleszewski, and Naser M Ammash
Nina Braunwald: A Female Pioneer in Cardiac Surgery, Nikhil Sabharwal, Harmanjit Dev, Hassiba Smail, David C McGiffin, and Pankaj Saxena
Optical Coherence Tomographic Evaluation of Hyperacute Bivalirudin-Induced Coronary Stent Thrombosis, Jorge L Peñalver, Wassim Shatila, and Emerson Perin
Percutaneous Valvuloplasty for Bioprosthetic Tricuspid Valve Stenosis, Gaurav Rana, Rohit Malhotra, Anjali Sharma, and Nikolaos Kakouros
Predictors of High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T Elevation in Patients with Acute Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia and Ischemic Heart Disease, Mehdi Sayadnik, Akbar Shafiee, Yaser Jenab, Arash Jalali, and Saeed Sadeghian
Prolonged Sinus Pauses upon Termination of Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation: Abnormal Right Atrial Electrophysiologic and Electroanatomic Findings, Zhengyu Bao, Hongwu Chen, Bing Yang, Michael Shehata, Weizhu Ju, Fengxiang Zhang, Gang Yang, Kai Gu, Mingfang Li, Kejiang Cao, Xunzhang Wang, and Minglong Chen
Recurrent Biatrial Myxoma in a 41-Year-Old Woman after Left Atrial Myxoma Resection, Xiaoming Jia, Anjali Kohli, Jane Jarjour, Chung-Jiah Justin Chen, Brendan Gilmore, Rashed Tabbaa, and Edward Lee Poythress
Selective Upper-Body Perfusion Technique for Removal of Renal Cell Carcinoma Extending into the Inferior Vena Cava and Right Atrium, Selim Aydin, Bora Cengiz, Banu Vural Gokay, Anar Mammadov, Remzi Emiroglu, Saadettin Eskicorapci, and Ersin Erek
Serum MicroRNA-27b as a Screening Biomarker for Left Ventricular Hypertrophy, Yan Wang, Shuyan Chen, Yanhong Gao, and Song Zhang
Skin Necrosis Induced by Coumarin Congeners, Herbert L Fred