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 2017
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
The Rise and Fall of Estrogen Therapy: Is Testosterone for "Manopause" Next?, Briana T Costello, Keri Sprung, and Stephanie A Coulter
The Two Anomalies of Wilhelm Ebstein, Magdalena Mazurak and Jacek Kusa
Titanium Plug Closure after HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device Explantation in a 15-Year-Old Girl: First US Experience, Diego A Lara, Aamir Jeewa, Barbara A Elias, Elizabeth O McCullum, Susan W Denfield, William J Dreyer, and Iki Adachi
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in a Patient with Unicuspid Aortic Valve, Angelo Nascimbene, Pranav Loyalka, Igor D Gregoric, Ricardo Bellera, Maan Malahfji, Marija Petrovic, and Biswajit Kar
Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve-in-Valve Replacement with an Edwards Sapien 3 Valve, Pranav Loyalka, Angelo Nascimbene, Benjamin Metz, Igor D Gregoric, Ajay Sundara Raman, and Biswajit Kar
Unproven Stem Cell-Based Interventions: Advancing Policy through Stakeholder Collaboration, Kirstin R W Matthews and Ana S Iltis
What Makes a Medical Journal Successful? Five Crucial Components, Herbert L Fred
White Blood Cell Subtypes Are Associated with a Greater Long-Term Risk of Death after Acute Myocardial Infarction, Arthur Shiyovich, Harel Gilutz, and Ygal Plakht
Submissions from 2016
Advanced Interventional Therapy for Radiation-Induced Cardiovascular Disease, Daisy C Nieto
Advancing a Guiding Catheter Across a Mechanical Aortic Valve, Wassim Shatila and Guilherme V Silva
Alternative Surgical Approach to Repairing a Giant Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm, Vincenzo Giambruno, Cristina Cucchietti, Calogera Pisano, and Jonathan Hyde
Aortic Dissection Caused by Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: 2 New Case Reports and Detailed Analysis of 86 Previous Cases, Priyank Shah, Sharad Bajaj, and Fayez Shamoon
Aspirin Resistance Predicts Adverse Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Symptomatic Peripheral Artery Disease, Tilak Pasala, Jennifer Soo Hoo, Mary Kate Lockhart, Rehan Waheed, Prasanna Sengodan, Jeffrey Alexander, and Sanjay Gandhi
Association between High Endocardial Unipolar Voltage and Improved Left Ventricular Function in Patients with Ischemic Cardiomyopathy., Ki Park, Dejian Lai, Eileen M Handberg, Lem Moyé, Emerson C Perin, Carl J Pepine, and R David Anderson
Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Endocarditis in Association with Enterococcus durans, Luca Fallavollita, Lorena Di Gioacchino, and Fabrizio Balestrini
Biventricular Myocardial Performance Is Impaired in Proportion to Severity of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Selahattin Akyol, Mustafa Cortuk, Ahmet Oytun Baykan, Kemal Kiraz, Abdurrezzak Borekci, Taner Seker, Mustafa Gur, and Murat Cayli