The Texas Heart Institute Journal: Volume 50, Issue 5

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

Volume 50, Issue 5 of The Texas Heart Institute Journal Online

EDITORIAL

In Memoriam: Paolo Angelini (1941-2023)—A Pioneer and World-Leading Expert in Coronary Artery Anomalies. A Tribute From the International Coronary Artery Anomalies Collaborative (ICAAC)
Christoph Gräni, MD, PhD; Carlos M. Mery, MD, MPH; Silvana Molossi, MD, PhD

CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Efficacy of a Commercial Physical Activity Monitor in Longitudinal Tracking of Patients With Pulmonary Hypertension: A Pilot Study
Eliana Rosenzweig, BS; Gerson Antonio Valencia Villeda, MD; Sarah Crook, PhD; Fatima Koli, MS; Erika B. Rosenzweig, MD; Usha S. Krishnan, MD

Clinical Impact of Patient-Prosthesis Mismatch After Aortic Valve Replacement With a Mechanical or Biological Prosthesis
Milos Matkovic, MD, PhD; Nemanja Aleksic, MD, PhD; Ilija Bilbija, MD, PhD; Ana Antic, MD; Jelena Milin Lazovic, MD, PhD; Marko Cubrilo, MD; Aleksandar Milojevic, MD; Igor Zivkovic, MD; Svetozar Putnik, MD, PhD

Takotsubo Syndrome in Black Americans: Insights From the National Inpatient Sample
Olga Vriz, MD; Ali Hassan Mushtaq, MD; Ahmed Nahid Elshaer, MD; Abdullah Shaik, MD; Irene Landi, MD; Talal Alzahrani, MD, MPH

Incidence, Risk Score Performance, and In-Hospital Outcomes of Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation After Cardiac Surgery
Matthew W. Segar, MD, MS; Alexander Marzec, MD; Mehdi Razavi, MD; Karen Mullins, MSHS; Joanna E. Molina-Razavi, MD; Subhasis Chatterjee, MD; Alexis E. Shafii, MD; Jennifer R. Cozart, MD; Marc R. Moon, MD; Abdi Rasekh, MD; Mohammad Saeed, MD

NARRATIVE REVIEW

A Critical Care Echocardiography—Driven Approach to Undifferentiated Shock
Pedro Salinas, MD; Jacqueline Sohn, DO; José L. Díaz-Gómez, MD

New Biomarkers for Cardiovascular Disease
Stephanie J. Kim; Fernanda C. P. Mesquita, PhD; Camila Hochman-Mendez, PhD

CASE REPORTS

Recovery of Lung Function After 149 Days on Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for COVID-19
Orlando R. Suero, MD; Sri Kartik Valluri, MD; Mario H. Farias-Kovac, MD; Leo Simpson, MD; Gabriel Loor, MD; Diana M. Guerra, MD; Jose L. Diaz-Gomez, MD; Subhasis Chatterjee, MD

Surgical Management of Giant Unruptured Left Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm With Severe Aortic Regurgitation
Keisuke Ozawa, MD; Kenji Kuwaki, MD, PhD; Hidekazu Furuya, MD; Masaomi Yamaguchi, MD; Akiyoshi Yamamoto, MD

ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction and Bleeding Complications in JAK2-Negative Polycythemia
Priscilla Duran Luciano, MD; Vanessa Sabella-Jiménez, MD, MSc

Patent Foramen Ovale–Related Hypoxemia After Bilateral Lung Transplant
Lekhya Raavi, MD; Pankaj Garg, MBBS; Mohammad Alomari, MD; Mostafa Ali, MD; Ishaq Wadiwala, MD; Magdy M. El-Sayed Ahmed, MD, MS

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CARDIOVASCULAR REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

Inflammatory Pathways and Their Implications in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
Matthew W. Segar, MD, MS; Stephanie A. Coulter, MD

Science Is a Self-Correcting Discipline: Revisiting the Biological Potential of Adult Cardiac Progenitors
Daniele Torella, MD, PhD; Eleonora Cianflone, PhD

The CardiAMP Cell Therapy for Heart Failure Trial
Carl J. Pepine, MD; Amish N. Raval, MD

Repeated Intravenous Administration of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Produces Cumulative Beneficial Effects in Chronic Ischemic Cardiomyopathy
Xian-Liang Tang, MD; Roberto Bolli, MD

Polyploidy in Cardiomyocytes: Machine Learning for Single Cell Analyses
Jeremy Scott Mitchell; Mark Alan Sussman, PhD

Optimized Catheter System Demonstrates Utility for Endomyocardial Delivery of Cardiopoietic Stem Cells in Target Patients With Heart Failure
Jozef Bartunek, MD, PhD; Andre Terzic, MD, PhD

Targeting Cell Senescence to Improve Cardiac Regeneration
Georgina M. Ellison-Hughes, PhD

Surgical Delivery of Embryonic Cells and Products
Philippe Menasché, MD, PhD

Hippo Pathway Knockdown Gene Therapy in the Heart
Todd R. Heallen, PhD; James F. Martin, MD, PhD

IMAGES IN CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE

External Iliac Artery Dissection Described on Duplex Ultrasonography
Shannon M. McDonnell, BS; Pegge M. Halandras, MD; Robert S. Dieter, 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.