5 results match your criteria: "Barwon Health - The Geelong Hospital[Affiliation]"
Screening for post 32-week preterm birth risk: how helpful is routine perinatal data collection?
Heliyon
June 2016
Centre for Pattern Recognition and Data Analytics, Deakin University, Australia.
Background: Preterm birth is a clinical event significant but difficult to predict. Biomarkers such as fetal fibronectin and cervical length are effective, but the often are used only for women with clinically suspected preterm risk. It is unknown whether routinely collected data can be used in early pregnancy to stratify preterm birth risk by identifying asymptomatic women.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSafe and effective use of outpatient non-myeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplantation for myeloma.
Blood Cancer J
May 2014
1] Malignant Haematology and Stem Cell Transplantation Service, The Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road, Prahran, Victoria, Australia [2] Australian Centre for Blood Diseases, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
A case of Kingella kingae endocarditis complicated by native mitral valve rupture.
Australas Med J
May 2013
Barwon Health - The Geelong Hospital, Departments of Infectious Diseases, General Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery.
We report a case of Kingella kingae endocarditis in a patient with a history of recent respiratory tract infection and dental extraction. This case is remarkable for embolic and vasculitic phenomena in association with a large valve vegetation and valve perforation. Kingella kingae is an organism known to cause endocarditis, however early major complications are uncommon.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCould exercise be a new strategy to revert some patients with atrial fibrillation?
Intern Med J
January 2010
Neuroscience Department, Barwon Health/The Geelong Hospital, Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Background: This study is the result of the anecdotal observation that a number of patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) had noted reversion to sinus rhythm (SR) with exercise.We aimed to evaluate the potential role of exercise stress test (EST) for the reversion of AF.
Methods: Patients with AF who were scheduled to undergo electrical cardioversion (DCR) underwent EST using a modified Bruce protocol.
Health burden of hip and other fractures in Australia beyond 2000. Projections based on the Geelong Osteoporosis Study.
Med J Aust
May 1999
University of Melbourne Department of Medicine, Barwon Health-The Geelong Hospital, VIC.
Objective: To calculate the expected increase in the number of fractures in adults attributable to the predicted increase in the number of elderly Australians.
Data Sources: All fractures in adult residents (> or = 35 years) of the Barwon Statistical Division (total population, 218,000) were identified from radiological reports from February 1994 to February 1996. The Australian Bureau of Statistics supplied predictions of Australia's population (1996 to 2051).