13th January 2024
SWR has been providing excellent and comprehensive radiological services in South West Sydney for more than 20 years. SWR provides referring physicians with seamless access to high quality diagnostic medical images and reports.
SWR is owned and operated by the very radiologists who service you, offering patients and physicians, a personal level of care across all our imaging clinics.…
13th January 2024, Conjoint A/Prof Chee L Khoo
Amiodarone started life as an anti-angina drug but it’s used primarily for its anti-arrhythmic properties these days. That’s not because it is such a good anti-arrhythmic agent (AAD) but because there just aren’t that many good and safe anti-arrhythmic agents around. We are all aware of amiodarone’s thyroid effects (hypo or hyper) and we monitor them closely as long as they are on amiodarone.…
13th January 2024, Conjoint A/Prof Chee L Khoo
When we think about extreme physical activity (EPA) such as marathon running, apart from the perceived issue of wearing out knee and hip joints (that’s another issue, another day), we think about the cardiovascular risks or benefits that comes with this intense physical activity. We explored the issue of marathon running and cardiovascular risks 9 months ago here.…
27th December, 2023 Spectrum Medical Imaging
When you are used to a certain standard of reporting, you don’t really trust anyone else with your radiology referrals. Many of our patients don’t just live or work in South West Sydney. They may live here but work in the shire. Now Spectrum Medical Imaging is in Miranda. How convenient for patients.…
27th December 2023, A/Prof Chee L Khoo
When we think about extreme physical activity (EPA) such as marathon running, apart from the perceived issue of wearing out knee and hip joints (that’s another issue, another day), we think about the cardiovascular risks or benefits that comes with this intense physical activity. We explored the issue of marathon running and cardiovascular risks 9 months ago here.…
27th December 2023, A/Prof Chee L Khoo
Not surprisingly, if dysglycaemia is the major contributor to microvascular complications in type 2 diabetes (T2D), the same complications must plaque our patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D. However, we haven’t had many major advances in the management for chronic kidney disease (CKD) and cardiovascular disease (CVD) in patients with T1D for decades.…
12th December 2023, NIA Diagnostic Imaging
One of the standout diagnoses I remember from medical school is renal artery stenosis. In practice, it is usually someone else that makes that diagnosis. It is not that uncommon. We may hear an abdominal bruit in our general vascular screen. We might struggle to get our patient’s BP to target despite the 4th or 5th agent.…
10th December 2023
GPVoice has become a busy portal keeping GPs up-to-date with new information that helps us look after our patients. We keep you abreast with new guidelines, new practice paradigms, new drugs coming our way and new ways of thinking about problems. We are regularly joined by our radiology colleagues with their useful articles as well as keeping up-to-date with what is available in the radiology world.…
10th December 2023, A/Prof Chee L Khoo
We don’t get old and weak. Actually, if we get weak, we become old. We all see that in practice. It doesn’t matter how old our patient is. When they become weak, they slow down. They can’t walk very far and they don’t. They become weaker and weaker. They have difficulty get off a chair.…
9th December 2023, A/Prof Chee L Khoo
We know how effective statins are in lowering cholesterol levels. Lowering of cholesterol levels, especially LDL-C, have been shown to incrementally reduce adverse cardiovascular events in patients with atherosclerotic disease. We have data to show that for every 1 mmol/L of LDL-C reduction there is a 23% reduction in cardiovascular events, which means, the lower the better (1).…
30th November, Spectrum Medical Imaging
The midfoot consist of 5 bones, cuboid, navicular and three cuneiform bones. These bones articulate with the base of the five metatarsals. In the Lisfranc injuries, it is these articulations (and their ligamemts) that are damage. Sometimes, there are fractures easily seen on plain xrays. Sometimes, one can see separation of the bones on plain xrays.…
27th November 2023, A/Prof Chee L Khoo
Although moderate to severe acne is pretty common in primary care, our management tends to be haphazard. We have our favourite topical and oral therapy but I am not sure that that is evidence-based nor pathophysiological in our approach. When all else fails, we refer on to our friendly dermatologist. I recently attended a brilliant lecture at the Melbourne GPCE presented by Dr Ryan de Cruz, a Melbournian dermatologist.…