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
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
Cardiac Papillary Fibroelastoma: Single-Institution Experience with 14 Surgical Patients, Walid K Abu Saleh, Odeaa Al Jabbari, Basel Ramlawi, and Michael J Reardon
Catheter Ablation of Ventricular Tachycardia: Moving Beyond Palliation, Nilesh Mathuria
Comparative Efficacy of Nebivolol and Metoprolol to Prevent Tachycardia-Induced Cardiomyopathy in a Porcine Model, Alireza Nazeri, MacArthur A Elayda, Ana Maria Segura, Raymond F Stainback, Joanna Nathan, Vei-Vei Lee, Christina Bove, Luiz Sampaio, Brian Grace, Ali Massumi, and Mehdi Razavi
Coronary-Cameral Fistula Caused by Guidewire Trauma and Resolved by Coil Embolization, Suvro Banerjee and Soumya Patra
Cutting the Cost of Health Care: The Physician's Role, Herbert L Fred
Durability of the Starr-Edwards Heart Valve: Early Decisions Led to Successful Results, Albert Starr and Gary L Grunkemeier
Emergency Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: Indications and Outcomes from 2003 through 2013, Erin M Schumer, John H Chaney, Jaimin R Trivedi, Paul L Linsky, Matthew L Williams, and Mark S Slaughter
Endocarditis and Incomplete Endothelialization 12 Years after Amplatzer Septal Occluder Deployment, Allan K Nguyen, Brian A Palafox, Joanne P Starr, Richard N Gates, and Farbouch Berdjis
Endovascular Treatment of Superior Vena Cava Syndrome via Balloon-in-Balloon Catheter Technique with a Palmaz Stent, Wassim Shatila, Abdelkader Almanfi, Mehran Massumi, Kathryn G Dougherty, Dhaval R Parekh, and Neil E Strickman