11th February 2024, A/Prof Chee L Khoo
Hypertriglyceridaemia (HTG) often accompanies hypercholesterolaemia but that is often ignored as it is considered to be a minor villain. Older clinical trials on lipid lowering agents excluded subjects with HTG and that is partly why the significance of HTG is often ignored. The interplay between HTG and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) is real but extremely complicated.…
27th January 2024, NIA Diagnostic Imaging
Intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) is defined as any bleeding within the intracranial vault, which includes the brain parenchyma and the surrounding meningeal spaces. ICH is associated with severe outcomes, including a 30-day mortality rate of 35–52%, with only 20% of survivors expected to fully recover within 6 months. Hence, ICHs are classified as medical emergencies, requiring immediate diagnosis and treatment to ensure the highest possible survival chances.…
27th January 2024, A/Prof Chee L Khoo
The World Health Organisation classifies epithelial ovarian carcinomas into several morphological categories according to cell type: serous carcinomas (SC), mucinous carcinomas, endometrioid carcinomas, and clear-cell carcinomas, transitional-cell Brenner tumours, mixed, and undifferentiated type [1]. SC account for 75-80% of epithelial carcinomas and are subdivided into high-grade SC (HGSC) and low-grade SC (LGSC). Like any other cancers, early diagnosis would be important to improve the prognosis but often when diagnosed, ovarian cancer is in its advanced stages.…
27th January 2024, A/Prof Chee L Khoo
We are all pretty much used to weekly GLP1-RA injections for our patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D). Certainly, a lot less needles compared with the once daily or twice daily GLP1-RA injections and therefore more acceptable to patients (including those without diabetes!). Weekly GLP-1 are efficacious in reducing fasting as well as postprandial glucose.…
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.…