The Texas Heart Institute Journal is an online peer-reviewed, international journal covering the broad field of cardiovascular diseases. The Journal aims to be a highly reputable and well-balanced reference that highlights practical techniques and pathways of care and delivers high-impact scientific contributions from clinicians in all disciplines of cardiovascular medicine. Subjects include coronary, peripheral, structural, and congenital heart disease, and cardiovascular anesthesia. The Journal publishes original research contributions, editorials, reviews, meta-analyses, case reports, images, and letters to the editor.

In 2023, we are introducing important updates to The Journal with Volume 50, Issue 1. The most striking changes include a modified logo and a switch to blue accents. More importantly, article formats are structured to deliver messages more concisely (see New Author Instructions for details).

Please consider submitting your research results and other scientific contributions to The Journal. Authorship is open to all clinicians and research scientists with an interest in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cardiovascular disease. Moreover, our continuous publication schedule enables articles to be published within six to eight weeks of acceptance.

We also encourage you to read The Journal to keep up to date on what is happening in the field of cardiovascular medicine.

Zvonimir Krajcer, MD
Editor-in-Chief

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Volume 50, Issue 2 of The Texas Heart Institute Journal Online

CASE REPORTS

Coronary Stent Off-Wire Dislodgement: Case Report of a Rare Complication
Meng-Ying Lu, MD; Kuang-Te Wang, MD

Can Breaking Heroin Addiction Lead to a Broken Heart? A Case of Reverse Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy in a Patient With Heroin Withdrawal
Hunter Launer, MD; Daniel Nelson, MD; Alarica Dietzen, BS; Atul Singla, MD

Management of Guidewire Entrapment and Fracture During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: When All Bailout Techniques Fail!
Tushar Sharma, MD; Brad Pfeffer, MD; Christopher C. Kwon, MD; Abdulla A. Damluji, MD, PhD

Pathogenic BCS1L Mutation Resulting in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy: A Unique Presentation of Nuclear Mitochondrial Disease
Cameron Incognito, MD; Jeffrey Hedley, MD; Kristine T. Posadas, MD; Xiangling Wang, MD, PhD; Milind Desai, MD, MBA

Incidentally Discovered Right Atrial Mass: A Rare and Unexpected Etiology
Daniel Sykora, MD, MS; Hari P. Chaliki, MD; Kristopher W. Cummings, MD; Kristen Sell-Dottin, MD; Melissa L. Stanton, MD; Luis R. Scott, MD

Fulminant Eosinophilic Myocarditis Without Peripheral Eosinophilia
Ja-Yeon Lee, MD; Sun Hwa Lee, MD, PhD; Won Ho Kim, MD, PhD

Two Endovascular Stent Graft Repairs Needed for an Extrathoracic Aortic Graft: Distant Complications After an Original Open Repair for a Gunshot Wound to the Chest
Kate Kiely, MD, MPA; Frank Arko, MD

Transcatheter Aortic Valve-in-Valve-in-Valve Replacement in a Young Woman With Transcatheter Structural Valve Deterioration Within a Degenerated Aortic Root Homograft
Jonathan C. Hong, MD, MHS; Vicente Orozco-Sevilla, MD; Jose G. Diez, MD; Joseph S. Coselli, MD

Sustained Lumen Area by Paclitaxel-Coated Balloon Following Rotational Atherectomy for Napkin-Ring Left Main Trunk Ostial Lesion
Takumi Osawa, MD; Tomomi Koizumi, MD, PhD; Yuta Ito, MD

Endovascular Aortic Repair for Thoracic Aortic Compression Resulting From Chance Fracture of the Thoracic Spine
Akinobu Matsuo, MD; Sho Matsuyama, MD, PhD; Kazuhiro Kurisu, MD; Yasutaka Ueno, MD; Yasuhisa Oishi, MD, PhD; Akira Shiose, MD, PhD

Enhanced Left Ventricular Recovery in Treatment of Mitral Regurgitation With Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction
Robert Devich, BS; Balakrishnan Mahesh, MBBS, PhD; Geetha Bhat, MD; Mark Kozak, MD; Esther Choi, BA; Nathaniel Melton, MD; Robert Dowling, MD

Large Left Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm Presenting as an Embolic Stroke After a “Silent” Myocardial Infarction
Cameron Incognito, MD; Joshua Parker, MD; Michael Arustamyan, DO; Milad Matta, MD; Kristine Posadas, MD; Ran Lee, MD

Managing False Lumen Patency in Chronic Thoracic Aortic Dissecting Aneurysms With Coil Embolization
Yash Pradeep Vaidya, MD; Naveed Abdul Rahman, MD; Manu Kannan Arul, MD; Anthony Feghali, MD; Palma M. Shaw, MD; Michael James Costanza, MD

Can Significant Coronary Artery Disease Coexist With Transient Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy, and How Does Spasm Interrelate?
Paolo Angelini, MD; Carlo Uribe, MD; Philip A. Salem, MD

CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

The Impact of Bicuspid Aortic Valve Leaflet Fusion Morphology on the Ascending Aorta and on Outcomes of Aortic Valve Replacement
Steve Bibevski, MD, PhD; Mark Ruzmetov, MD, PhD; Juan F. Plate, MD; Frank G. Scholl, MD

Can Asthma Cause Pericardial Effusion? Insights Into an Intriguing Association
Betul Banu Karasu, MD; Berna Akin, MD

Recovery From the Impact of COVID-19 on Treatment Times and Clinical Outcomes of Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: An Interim Analysis
Abdelrahman Ali, MD; Thomas Schirmer, RN; Francis J. Kiernan, MD; Bryan Piccirillo, MD; Joseph Ingrassia, MD; Talhat Azemi, MD; Immad Sadiq, MD; Daniel B. Fram, MD; Asad Rizvi, MD; Saurabh Joshi, MD; Jeffrey Mather, MS; Raymond G. McKay, MD

Randomized Noninferiority Trial of Radiation Exposure During Coronary Angiography: the Transradial and Transfemoral Approach by EXPERienced Operators in Daily rouTine (EXPERT) Trial
Cristiano de Oliveira Cardoso, MD, PhD; Cláudio Vasques de Moraes, MD; Julio Vinícius Teixeira, MD; Carlos Roberto Cardoso, MD; Felipe Baldissera, MD; Eduardo Ilha de Mattos, MD; Marcio José Siqueira, MD; Leandro Fischer, BS; Juliana Cañedo Sebben, MSc; Bruna Santos Silva, BS; Gabriel Broetto, BS; Carlos Antônio Mascia Gottschall, MD, PhD; Rogério Sarmento-Leite, MD, PhD

CASE SERIES

Cardiac Surgery for Treatment of COVID-19–Associated Infectious Endocarditis
Ali Taghizadeh-Waghefi, MD; Asen Petrov, MD; Manuel Wilbring, MD, PhD; Konstantin Alexiou, MD, PhD; Utz Kappert, MD, PhD; Klaus Matschke, MD, PhD; Sems-Malte Tugtekin, MD, PhD

REVIEW

The Evolution of Durable, Implantable Axial-Flow Rotary Blood Pumps
P. Alex Smith, PhD; Yaxin Wang, PhD; O.H. Frazier, MD

IMAGES IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE

Radial Arteriovenous Fistula After Coronary Catheterizations
Tomoki Fukui, MD; Akira Marumoto, MD, PhD; Nobuyuki Ogasawara, MD

 

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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.

Contact Us

Zvonimir Krajcer, MD
Editor-in-Chief, The Texas Heart Institute Journal
THIJEditor@texasheart.org

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