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Axial crystal arthropathy mimicking facet joint septic arthritis with epidural abscess
A 78-year-old man with hypertension, dyslipidaemia, hypothyroidism and gout presented with two weeks of migratory polyarthritis and fever
Hannah Poole · Amy Crowe · John Daffy
Current and emerging medications for the management of obesity in adults
Five medications are currently indicated for obesity management in Australia, all of which have beneficial effects on obesity-related complications
Rosalind Walmsley · Priya Sumithran
The cost‐effectiveness of coronary calcium score‐guided statin therapy initiation for Australians with family histories of premature coronary artery disease
Expanding eligibility for statin therapy should selectively target people with subclinical atherosclerosis rather than simply lowering treatment thresholds
Prasanna Venkataraman · Amanda L Neil · Geoffrey K Mitchell · Tony Stanton · Stephen Nicholls · Andrew M Tonkin · Gerald F Watts · Thomas H Marwick
Consensus recommendations on the management of hepatitis C in Australia's prisons
Prison settings are risk environments for HCV transmission and should therefore be a priority setting for harm reduction and clinical and educational interventions
Rebecca J Winter · Yumi Sheehan · Timothy Papaluca · Graeme A Macdonald · Joy Rowland · Anton Colman · Mark Stoove · Andrew R Lloyd · Alexander J Thompson
Factors associated with hospitalisations and deaths of residential aged care residents with COVID‐19 during the Omicron (BA.1) wave in Queensland
Having received three COVID-19 vaccine doses was associated with much lower likelihood of hospitalisation or death
Robert J Ellis · Cameron RM Moffatt · Luke T Aaron · Greta Beaverson · Khin Chaw · Corinne Curtis · Rhett Freeman‐Lamb · Deborah Judd · Khadija Khatry · Yee Sum Li · Terry Nash · Bonnie Macfarlane · Karen Slater · Yudish Soonarane · Mark Stickley · Satyamurthy Anuradha
Diagnostic and therapeutic abdominal paracentesis
Paracentesis is a low bleeding risk procedure which can be carried out safely even in patients with advanced cirrhosis
John J Harvey · Ralley Prentice · Jacob George
Increasing screening for atrial fibrillation in general practice: the Atrial Fibrillation Self‐Screening, Management And guideline‐Recommended Therapy (AF Self‐SMART) study
AF self-screening in general practice waiting rooms is feasible, and could reduce the number of AF-related strokes
Katrina Giskes · Nicole Lowres · Jessica Orchard · JiaLin Li · Kirsty McKenzie · Charlotte Mary Hespe · Ben Freedman
New hope for resistant hypertension, with Prof Markus Schlaich
Vol 217, Issue 11: 28 November 2022. Professor Markus Schlaich is Director of the Dobney Hypertension Centre in Perth, and Dobney Chair of Clinical Research at the University of Western Australia. His recently published research on dual endothelin antagonist aprocitentin for resistant hypertension can be found at The Lancet. His op-ed for InSight+ is free to access and can be found here. With MJA news and online editor Cate Swannell. 23 mins, 41 secs.
Professor Markus Schlaich
The long term implications of fertility therapy for the health of women
Cardiovascular disease mortality is not increased in women undergoing IVF, but vigilant surveillance is nonetheless required
Robert J Norman
Long term all‐cause and cardiovascular disease mortality among women who undergo fertility treatment
Reassuringly, fertility treatment does not increase long term all-cause or CVD mortality risk
Stephanie R Yiallourou · Dianna Magliano · Tilahun N Haregu · Melinda J Carrington · Daniel L Rolnik · Luk Rombauts · Andre Rodrigues · Jocasta Ball · Fiona J Bruinsma · Fabricio Da Silva Costa
