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Cardiovascular diseases

Letters

Absolute risk of cardiovascular disease events, and blood pressure- and lipid-lowering therapy in Australia

Satvinder S Dhaliwal and Timothy A Welborn

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (1): 51

News / From the Heart Foundation

Australian Heart Maps

Garry LR Jennings

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (11): 490

Christmas competition

Acute coronary syndrome on Friday the 13th: a case for re-organising services?

Majd B Protty, Mustafa Jaafar, Sahar Hannoodee and Phillip Freeman

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (11): 523-525

Perspectives

Functional mitral valve regurgitation: repair or replacement?

Hugh D Wolfenden and Greg Cranney

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (10): 438-440

Narrative review

Update on pharmacotherapy for pulmonary hypertension

David L Prior, Heath Adams and Trevor J Williams

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (6): 271-276

Narrative review

Coronary stent technology: a narrative review

Daniel Chen and Nigel Jepson

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (6): 277-281

Editorials

New developments in coronary stent technology

Ahmad Farshid and Simon O'Connor

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (6): 258-259

Medical education / Clinical skills

The jugular veins: gateway to the heart

Andrew Elder and Balakrishnan (Kichu) R Nair

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 204-205

Research

Disparities in acute in-hospital cardiovascular care for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal South Australians

Rosanna Tavella, Katharine McBride, Wendy Keech, Janet Kelly, Amanda Rischbieth, Christopher Zeitz, John F Beltrame, Philip A Tideman and Alex Brown

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 222-227 Free

Narrative review

Progress in the care of familial hypercholesterolaemia: 2016

Damon A Bell and Gerald F Watts

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 232-236 Free

Letters

General medicine Indigenous outreach registrar training in rural Queensland

Paul Jauncey, Scott McKenzie, Rohan Corpus, Kwun M Fong and Darren L Walters

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 237

Perspectives

The inequitable burden of group A streptococcal diseases in Indigenous Australians

Philippa J May, Asha C Bowen and Jonathan R Carapetis

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (5): 201-203 Free

Medical education / Clinical skills

Pitting and non-pitting oedema

Elizabeth Whiting and Madeline E McCready

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (4): 157-158

Short reports

The uptake of coronary fractional flow reserve in Australia in the past decade

Austin N May, Anthony Kull, Brendan Gunalingam, J Lynn Francis and George T Lau

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (3): 127

Medical education / Snapshot

Cardiac tamponade in undiagnosed systemic lupus erythematosus

Tsung-Han Ho and Yi-Tin Tsai

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (3): 109

Guideline summary

National Heart Foundation of Australia and Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand: Australian clinical guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes 2016

Derek P Chew, Ian A Scott, Louise Cullen, John K French, Tom G Briffa, Philip A Tideman, Stephen Woodruffe, Alistair Kerr, Maree Branagan and Philip EG Aylward

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (3): 128-133 Free

Editorials

Improving outcomes in coronary artery disease

Andrew I MacIsaac

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (3): 111-112

Narrative review

The clinical utility of new cardiac imaging modalities in Australasian clinical practice

Christian Hamilton-Craig and Jonathan Chan

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (3): 134-139 Free

Editorials

Ensuring access to invasive care for all patients with acute coronary syndromes: beyond our reach?

Ian A Scott

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (3): 112-113 Free

Perspectives

Time to bury “hypertension”

Mark R Nelson

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (3): 103-104 Free

Letters

English as a second language and outcomes of patients presenting with acute coronary syndromes: results from the CONCORDANCE registry

Craig P Juergens, John K French and David B Brieger

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (3): 140

Research

Variation in coronary angiography rates in Australia: correlations with socio-demographic, health service and disease burden indices

Derek P Chew, Andrew I MacIsaac, Jeffrey Lefkovits, Richard W Harper, Luke Slawomirski, David Braddock, Matthew J Horsfall, Heather A Buchan, Chris John Ellis, David B Brieger and Tom G Briffa

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (3): 114-120 Free

Perspectives

“Congenital heart health”: how psychological care can make a difference

Nadine A Kasparian, David S Winlaw and Gary F Sholler

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (3): 104-107 Free

Research

Pre-hospital thrombolysis in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a regional Australian experience

Arshad A Khan, Trent Williams, Lindsay Savage, Paul Stewart, Asma Ashraf, Allan J Davies, Steven Faddy, John Attia, Christopher Oldmeadow, Rohan Bhagwandeen, Peter J Fletcher and Andrew J Boyle

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (3): 121-125 Free

Perspectives

How health technology helps promote cardiovascular health outcomes

Robyn Gallagher and Lis Neubeck

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (3): 107-108