The Texas Heart Institute Journal: Volume 50, Issue 1

For 50 years, The Texas Heart Institute Journal has been published by The Texas Heart Institute as part of its medical education program. Our bimonthly 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.

It is indexed by Index Medicus/MEDLINE and by other indexing and abstracting services worldwide. Our full archive is available at PubMed Central.

The Journal invites authors to submit these article types for review:

Clinical Investigation
Laboratory Investigation
Systematic Review
Case Series
Research Letter
Case Reports (Submission Fee: $70.00 USD)
Narrative Review
Images in Cardiovascular Medicine (Submission Fee: $35.00 USD)
Initiatives in Healthcare
Perspectives
Editorials Commentary
Guest Editorial
Letters to the Editor

CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Validity and Diagnostic Performance of Computing Fractional Flow Reserve From 2-Dimensional Coronary Angiography Images
Vahid Mohammadi, MD; Massoud Ghasemi, MD; Reza Rahmani, MD; Maryam Mehrpooya, MD; Hamidreza Babakhani, MSc; Akbar Shafiee, MD, MSc; Mohammad Sadeghian, MD

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement for Severe Aortic Valve Stenosis: Do Patients Experience Better Quality of Life Regardless of Gradient?
Anthony Simone, MD; Juka S. Kim, BS; Jeanne Huchting, NP; Asim Rafique, MD; Ruhsen Ozcaglayan, MD; Richard J. Shemin, MD; Olcay Aksoy, MD; Murray H. Kwon, MD

Relationship Between Obstructive Sleep Apnea Severity and Serum Endocan Levels in Patients With Hypertension
Serkan Yazan, MD; Hüseyin Karakurt, MD; Hamdi Püşüroğlu, MD

Same-Day Carotid Artery Stenting and Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
Igor Zivkovic, MD; Stasa Krasic, MD; Petar Milacic, MD, PhD; Miroslav Milicic, MD, PhD; Petar Vukovic, MD, PhD; Zoran Tabakovic, MD; Dragan Sagic, MD, PhD; Nenad Ilijevski, MD, PhD; Ivana Petrovic, MD, PhD; Miodrag Peric, MD, PhD; Milovan Bojic, MD, PhD; Slobodan Micovic, MD, PhD

CASE REPORTS

Mitral Valve Surgery in Patients With an Implanted Amplatzer Septal Occluder: A Review of 2 Cases
Ufuk Sayar, MD; Nurel Ertürk, PT, MSc

Left Ventricular Noncompaction and Coronary Artery Disease: An Unexpected Combination
Chiara Rovera, MD; Erica Franco, MD; Claudio Moretti, MD, PhD

Circulatory Arrest for Traumatic Brachiocephalic Artery Pseudoaneurysm Repair
Conor F. Hynes, MD; Kunal D. Kotkar, MD

Isolated Cardiac Paraganglioma Encasing Right Coronary Artery With Evidence of Succinyl Dehydrogenase Gene Mutation: Successful Management Using Multimodality Imaging
Naveen Garg, MD, DM; Shashank Pandey, MD; Shiva Madan, MD; Subhash Yadav, MD, DM; Gurango Majumdar, MS, MCh; Neeraj Jain, MD; Manoj Jain, MD

Transplant Renal Vein Thrombosis Rescued in a Pediatric Patient Using Suction Thrombectomy
Anjay Batra, BS; Zachary Pallister, MD; Jayer Chung, MD; Kelby Fuller, PAC; Christine O’Mahony, MD; N. Thao Galván, MD, MPH

Giant Aneurysm of Left Main Coronary Artery in a Patient With Prior Operation for 4-Valve Endocarditis
Islam Abudayyeh, MD; Hambik Tankazyan, DO; Jessica Heimes, DO; David G. Rabkin, MD; Anees J. Razzouk, MD

Combined Repair of Upper Sternal Cleft and Pectus Excavatum in a Child
Sezai Çelik, MD; Ezel Erşen, MD

Freedom From Stent Fracture–Related Complications of Vascular Longitudinal Remodeling in a Patient With Heart Failure and a Degraded Bioresorbable Vascular Scaffold
Chi-Jen Chang, MD; Chien-Lin Lee, MD; Jen-Fang Cheng, MD; Yi-Chih Wang, MD; Juey-Jen Hwang, MD

Management of Rheumatic Mitral Stenosis With Annular Calcification During HeartMate 3 Device Implantation
Qiudong Chen, MD; Dominic Emerson, MD; Joanna Chikwe, MD; Fardad Esmailian, MD

Kounis Syndrome: A Sting to the Heart
Rahul V. Annabathula, MD; Mahesh A. Chandrasekhar, MD; Luke A. Peters, MD

Aortic Dissection and COVID-19 Pneumonia in a Pregnant Woman at 34 Weeks of Gestation
Kristina Krzelj, MD; Darko Anic, MD, PhD

IMAGES IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE

A Case of Biventricular Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy: Echocardiographic Diagnosis
Michiyo Yamano, MD; Takeshi Nakamura, MD; Tetsuhiro Yamano, MD; Satoaki Matoba, MD

Atrial Flutter Leads to Diagnosis of Metastatic Melanoma Involving the Heart
Mostafa Abohelwa, MD; Mohamed Elmassry, MD; Gaspar Del-Rio-Pertuz, MD; Jason Wischmeyer, MD

Massive Left Ventricular Thrombus in the Setting of COVID-19–Induced Systemic Thrombi
Kevin Coy, MD; Andrew Thorp, MD; Mamoon Ahmed, MBBS; Thomas Blankespoor, MS; Adam Stys, MD

Percutaneous Closure of Paravalvular Leak After Tricuspid Valve Replacement for Ebstein’s Anomaly
Alejandro R. Peirone, MD; Alejandro E. Contreras, MD; Andres A. Caeiro, MD; Edgardo Banille, MD; Christian Kreutzer, MD

Right Coronary Artery Narrowing by Stretching on Aortic Root Aneurysm
Ji-Ha Lee, MD; Jong-Pil Park, MD; Jong Bum Choi, MD

Imaging of Bifid Fourth Rib Presenting as a Chest Wall Mass in an Infant
Pankaj Garg, MBBS; Magdy M. El-Sayed Ahmed, MD, MS

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

Kounis Syndrome Associated With the Use of Diclofenac
Ana V. Pejcic, PhD; Milos N. Milosavljevic, PhD; Slobodan Jankovic, MD; Goran Davidovic, MD; Marko M. Folic, MD; Nevena D. Folic, MD

Impact of Chronic Kidney Disease on Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Wei Jiang, MD; Yudi Zhou, MD; Shu Chen, MD; Shengxin Liu, MD

CORONARY ANOMALIES

Surgical Reconstruction of the Anomalous Left Coronary Artery From the Pulmonary Artery
Slobodan Micovic, MD, PhD; Petar Milacic, MD; Miroslav Milicic, MD, PhD; Milica Brkovic, MD; Petar Vukovic, MD, PhD; Igor Zivkovic, MD

EDITORIAL

In Memoriam: Tomas Klima, MD (1931–2022)
L. Maximilian Buja, MD

AUTHOR INSTRUCTIONS

The Texas Heart Institute Journal publishes articles on all aspects of preventing, diagnosing, and treating cardiovascular disease from a clinical perspective. The editors welcome original research and educational articles, as well as opinion pieces and essays related to medical discipline.