UWA has established a new vaccine research centre, called VaxPol Lab, which aims to improve our understanding on vaccination policy in WA and beyond. Read More...
Arterial calcification is a stable marker of advanced vascular disease. High coronary artery calcification scores are recognised as an indicator of future cardiovascular risk and increasingly used to guide patient management and to prompt better adherence to frontline medications. Read More...
In 2019, around Australia there were 367 heart donors but only 112 hearts were transplanted. Improving the use of donated organs is an area of clear unmet need. Unlike brain-dead donors, some donors suffer a circulatory death (DCD), where the heart has ceased beating. Hearts from these donors have traditionally been considered too high risk to be transplanted and thought likely to yield poor recipient outcomes. Read More...
The hyperacute management of stroke generally refers to treatment in the first 24 hours of onset of symptoms and focuses on minimising brain injury. This includes time critical reperfusion therapies: intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) as well as endovascular clot retrieval (ECR) for stroke due to large vessel occlusion (LVO). Read More...
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