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Cardiovascular diseases

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

Narrative review

Appropriate use of serum troponin testing in general practice: a narrative review

Constantine N Aroney and Louise Cullen

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (2): 91-94 Free

Medical education / Clinical skills

Detecting ascites

Martin Veysey

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (2): 59-61

Editorials

Relieving the pressure: new Australian hypertension guideline

Garry LR Jennings

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (2): 63-64 Free

Guideline summary

Guideline for the diagnosis and management of hypertension in adults — 2016

Genevieve M Gabb, Arduino A Mangoni, Craig S Anderson, Diane Cowley, John S Dowden, Jonathan Golledge, Graeme J Hankey, Faline S Howes, Les Leckie, Vlado Perkovic, Markus Schlaich, Nicholas A Zwar, Tanya L Medley and Leonard Arnolda

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (2): 85-89 Free

Poem

An insight

Leslie M Taylor

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (1): 16

Research

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

Emily Banks, Simon R Crouch, Rosemary J Korda, Bill Stavreski, Karen Page, Katherine A Thurber and Robert Grenfell

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 320 Free

Editorials

Lost in translation: the gap between what we know and what we do about cardiovascular disease

Clara K Chow and Anthony Rodgers

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (8): 291-292 Free

Editorials

Improving health outcomes for linguistically diverse patients

Christine B Phillips

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 209-210

Research

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

Craig P Juergens, Bilyana Dabin, John K French, Leonard Kritharides, Karice Hyun, Jens Kilian, Derek PB Chew and David Brieger

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (6): 239 Free

News / From the Heart Foundation

A warning against heart disease complacency in 2016

Garry Jennings

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (5): 172 Free

Reflections / Obituary

Henry Krum: clinician, researcher and scientist

Christopher M Reid

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (5): 201

Research

Acute heart failure admissions in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory: the NSW HF Snapshot Study

Phillip J Newton, Patricia M Davidson, Christopher M Reid, Henry Krum*, Christopher Hayward, David W Sibbritt, Emily Banks and Peter S MacDonald

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (3): 113 Free

Short reports

Uptake of novel oral anticoagulants in Australia

Nicole L Pratt, Emmae N Ramsay, Gillian E Caughey, Sepehr Shakib and Elizabeth E Roughead

Med J Aust 2016; 204 (3): 104-105 Free

Short reports

Can patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome be screened for diabetes using glycosylated haemoglobin?

John Oldroyd, Adrienne O'Neil and David L Hare

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (10): 401

Research

General practitioners’ prescribing of lipid-lowering medications for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, 2001–2013

Amal N Trivedi, Allan J Pollack, Helena C Britt, Graeme C Miller, Christopher Harrison and Margaret A Kelaher

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (10): 407 Free

Research

Survival after an acute coronary syndrome: 18-month outcomes from the Australian and New Zealand SNAPSHOT ACS study

David B Brieger, Derek PB Chew, Julie Redfern, Chris Ellis, Tom G Briffa, Tegwen E Howell, Bernadette Aliprandi-Costa, Carolyn M Astley, Greg Gamble, Bridie Carr, Christopher JK Hammett, Neville Board and John K French

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (9): 368 Free

Research

Cardiac troponin testing for diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes in primary care

Helen M Wilcox, Alistair W Vickery and Jon D Emery

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (8): 336 Free

Case reports / Notable case

Catecholamine-induced cardiomyopathy resulting from life-threatening funnel-web spider envenoming

Geoffrey K Isbister, Kate V Sellors, Ursula Beckmann, Angela L Chiew, Michael A Downes and Ingrid Berling

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (7): 302-304 Free

For debate

How changes to the Medicare Benefits Schedule could improve the practice of cardiology and save taxpayer money

Richard W Harper, Arthur Nasis and Vijaya Sundararajan

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 256-258 Free

Research

The Cardiac Genetics Clinic: a model for multidisciplinary genomic medicine

Dominica Zentner, Tina N Thompson, Paul A James, Alison Trainer, Lesley C Adès, Ivan Macciocca, Jessica A Taylor, Kirsty Mann, Michael Bogwitz, Nigel Lewis, Natalie Morgan, Jitendra Vohra and Ingrid Winship

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 261 Free

Ethics and law

Transplantation of the heart after circulatory death of the donor: time for a change in law?

James Tibballs and Neera Bhatia

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (6): 268-270 Free

Short reports

Warfarin or excipient allergy: a clinical dilemma resolved

Mitchell J Gooch, Ngozichukwuka L Okiwelu, Timothy Law, Andrew P McLean-Tooke and Pragnesh Joshi

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (5): 229

Research

Rheumatic heart disease in Indigenous children in northern Australia: differences in prevalence and the challenges of screening

Kathryn V Roberts, Graeme P Maguire, Alex Brown, David N Atkinson, Bo Remenyi, Gavin Wheaton, Marcus Ilton and Jonathan Carapetis

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (5): 221 Free

Case reports / Lessons from practice

Steroid-induced cardiomyopathy

Hui-Chen Han, Omar Farouque and David L Hare

Med J Aust 2015; 203 (5): 226-227 Free