Have you ever walked into your doctor’s office and wondered why they are so concerned with your blood pressure and what the numbers mean? After all, aren’t we all “under enough pressure?” Blood pressure is a measure of how hard your blood is pushing against the walls of your arteries—blood vessels running away from your…

UT Health Tyler recently completed its 250th TAVR procedure, marking a milestone for the groundbreaking procedure.   Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is a minimally invasive procedure to replace a worn-out aortic valve in people with aortic valve stenosis. Aortic valve stenosis (aortic stenosis) occurs when the heart’s aortic valve thickens and calcifies. This prevents…

It’s not too late! There is still plenty of time to get your child caught up on vaccines as school starts. With the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, many parents have missed their child’s annual pediatric visit, which may have led to missed immunizations. Texas schools cannot require your child to get the COVID-19 vaccine,…

Dr. Robert Carney and Dr. David Hector, board-certified cardiologists at Tyler Cardiovascular Consultants (CVC), have returned to Henderson to provide cardiology related services to the community in conjunction with the UT Health East Texas Heart and Vascular Institute.   “The goal of the partnership between CVC and the UT Health East Texas Heart and Vascular…