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    Tag: Vascular

    Flu quadruples risk of stroke in next 28 days, Aussie meta-analysis finds

    June 30, 2025

    Patients with influenza have a 4.7-fold increased risk of stroke in the 28 days since initial infection, according to a new meta-analysis. Published in Cardiovascular…

    The GP wound care scheme is an important first step in stopping a hidden epidemic

    June 27, 2025

    The Chronic Wound Consumables Scheme (CWCS) promises to offer financial relief to around 20,000 Australians living with chronic wounds. As the country’s peak body for…

    Pass the potassium salt: Is this the next population health revolution?

    June 24, 2025

    There is too much sodium in our diets and not enough potassium — an obvious problem to anyone who learnt about the sodium-potassium pump in…

    Medical Must-See: An hourglass figure that is not ideal

    June 6, 2025

    A rare hourglass-shaped abdominal aortic aneurysm was discovered just in time for this 68-year-old. The patient presented to Sina Hospital’s ED in Iran with abdominal…

    Spot Dx — Can you work out the cause of this breakout?

    May 23, 2025

    Vicki is a 56-year-old business owner who presents with a two-day history of painless rash affecting the distal third of both legs. Test your clinical…

    Spot Dx — What’s behind this black finger?

    April 18, 2025

    Shane is a 42-year-old carpenter who presents with a painful black, left middle fingertip, present for two months. Test your clinical know-how by taking the…

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    ‘I’d work six months as a doctor then have six months off for the pro basketball season’: Dr Darren Ng’s story 

    March 20, 2025

    Starting both medical school and his professional basketball career aged 18, Dr Darren Ng “didn’t have much of a life”.  “I’d go to medical school in…

    Medical Must-See: Doctors get the sac from child’s internal iliac artery

    February 21, 2025

    Iranian surgeons have removed a 4cm x 4cm aneurysmal sac after diagnosing an idiopathic left internal iliac artery aneurysm in an 11-year-old boy. The previously…

    Vascular surgeon’s 18,000km solo motorbike trip to honour Australia’s first female surgeon

    February 17, 2025

    A lone rider, an unforgiving landscape and 18,000km of road — Dr Igor Banzic, a vascular surgeon, took on a testing solo challenge: circumnavigating Australia…

    24 surgeries in 24 years: The remarkable story of Dr Caitlin Rutherford-Heard

    July 3, 2024

    “The doctor didn’t come to speak to me afterwards. They didn’t tell Mum and Dad that the surgery hadn’t worked.   “They didn’t visit me in the ICU or on the ward. I never had a follow-up appointment.  …

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