Increasingly, women are now requesting non invasive prenatal screening. Spectrum Medical Imaging now offers a comprehensive non-invasive prenatal screening at Liverpool.
For patient convenience, they provide pre-test discussion, a viability/dating scan, GeneStyle NIPS and 13 week structural scan. NIPS results are available within 5 days. Genetic counselling for NIPS if required post test.
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1st September 2018, Dr Chee L Khoo
After acute otitis media, the middle ear effusion usually resolves within days although it may take up to 3 months in some children. However, in up to 8% of kids, the effusion persist beyond the 3 months and it becomes chronic otitis media with effusion (COME). Why these 8% is the key research question.…
1st August, 2018, Dr Chee L Khoo
When a diagnosis is idiopathic, it often means we don’t know its pathogenesis well. Often, a mixed bag of conditions is thrown in there because we are rather imprecise in defining them. Fibrosis is the final common pathway of lung injury and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis used to have a mixture of fibrotic conditions lumped together under the umbrella diagnosis.…
1st September, 2018, Dr Chee L Khoo
It would seem to me that just about every doctor who graduated from Australian medical schools know about Morton’s neuroma. It’s part of the long list of differential diagnoses of forefoot pain but either I have missed many or it’s not that common. I’m also not sure what else to do once diagnosed apart from referring to an orthopaedic surgeon.…
15th August, 2018, Dr Chee L Khoo
“Trust me, I’m a doctor” is so universally accepted that we don’t even have to say it. Patients know that they can trust us implicitly. What are we asking patients to trust us with though? The current debate or argument about the pros and cons of opt-in or opt-out with MyHealthRecord may endanger the trust patients have in their doctors.…
15th August 2018, Dr Chee L Khoo
Diabetes can be diagnosed using a myriad of criteria – fasting glucose >7.0mmol/L, 2-hour post prandial >11.0 mmol/L or HbA1c > 6.5%. There are limitations to each of those tests and it is not one size fits all. The myriad of diagnostic tests allows clinicians to choose the most appropriate test for our patients based on their individual characteristics.…
15th August 2018, Dr Chee L Khoo
Following an acute coronary event we know that two anti-platelets are better than aspirin alone in preventing further coronary events. What about a cerebro-vascular events? Following a mild CVA or a TIA, we would normally commenced aspirin to prevent another stroke especially in the first 90 days. Would adding another agent to aspirin be better in preventing further strokes?…
2nd August, 2018, Dr Chee L Khoo
I first met Jack 14 years ago when he was diagnosed with T2D from an OGTT in 2005. He was a 47 years old then. He was a busy businessman with no time for exercise and eating out fairly regularly. His BMI back then was 34.7. He was already on treatment for hypertension and dyslipidaemia.…
1st August, 2018, Dr Chee L Khoo
Ben
ign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is increasingly more common when men gets older. Transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) is still the gold standard treatment for most patients. Since alpha-adrenergic antagonists (also called alpha blockers) came to market, TURP is performed a lot less often. 5-alpha reductase convert testosterone into 5-alpha-di-hydrotestosterone (DHT), which is responsible for prostate hypertrophy and blocking this enzyme prevents further prostate growth.…
1st August, 2018, Dr Chee L Khoo
Although one third of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) have a family history of cancer, only 5% of all patients with CRC have an identifiable cause to their cancer predisposition. Most of these identifiable predispositions are inherited mutations in genes that regulate growth processes in colonic stem cells and/or genome caretakers which ensure the only good clean DNA is passed on to the next generation. …
1st August, 2018, Dr Chee L Khoo
After metformin and sulphonylurea, under the PBS we can choose between a DPP4 inhibitor, an SGLT2 inhibitor, a thiazolidinedione or a GLP1-RA injectable. Because of the potential adverse effects of cardiac failure with thiazolidinedione, realistically, it’s a three horse race. The cost effectiveness of each of the class of agents has not been explored thus far.…
1st August, 2018, Dr Chee L Khoo
We all know that unhealthy lifestyles are major risk factors for many chronic diseases and premature deaths. Many studies previously have reported that reduction in these unhealthy lifestyles can lead to increase in life expectancy of between 7.4 to 17.9 years in Japan, UK, Canada, Denmark, Norway and Germany 1-4. It would really be helpful during a consultation with our patients if we can quantify the benefit of these measures on the various chronic diseases and life expectancy.…