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Measuring high blood pressure at home with digital equipment.

BSW-DALLAS adds new FDA-approved option for resistant high blood pressure

Sam Baker

Renal denervation uses catheters to modify a patient's renal nerves which supply blood to the kidneys. A talk with the doctor who performed the first procedure in Texas.

Man in a white protective mask, looking outside through a window,during recovery from COVID illness in home.

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Houston researchers find your heart arteries may play a role in long COVID

Sam Baker

Most studies of what causes symptoms of COVID-19 to linger on after the virus has passed focused, with little success, on the heart muscle. Doctors at Houston Methodist Hospital instead looked at the heart arteries and hit on a promising idea. 四虎影院鈥檚 Sam Baker talked about this with the study鈥檚 co-author, Dr. Mouaz Al-Mallah, a professor of cardiology at the Houston Methodist DeBakey Heart and Vascular Center.

Dr. Ooi says open carotid artery surgeries (above) remain the gold standard, TCAR requires only a small incision and a catheter to deploy a stent.

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TCAR: A minimally invasive option that reduces the risk of stroke for some patients

Sam Baker

A 2018 study determined stroke was the third-leading cause of death in Texas.Carotid artery disease is a major cause of strokes. It narrows or blocks the arteries, on each side of your neck under the jawline, that provide the main blood supply to the brain.