Surgery (Northwest Academic Centre)

Cross-sectional analysis of association between socioeconomic status and utilization of primary total hip joint replacements 2006-7: Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry

Brennan, SL; Stanford, T; Wluka, A; Henry, MJ; Page, RS; Graves, SE; Kotowicz, MA; Nicholson, GC; Pasco, JA (BMC, 2012-04-30)

BACKGROUND: The utilization of total hip replacement (THR) surgery is rapidly increasing, however few data examine whether these procedures are associated with socioeconomic status (SES) within Australia. This study examined ...
Heritable DNA methylation marks associated with susceptibility to breast cancer

Joo, JE; Dowty, JG; Milne, RL; Wong, EM; Dugue, P-A; English, D; Hopper, JL; Goldgar, DE; Giles, GG; Southey, MC (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2018-02-28)

Mendelian-like inheritance of germline DNA methylation in cancer susceptibility genes has been previously reported. We aimed to scan the genome for heritable methylation marks associated with breast cancer susceptibility ...
Numerical investigations of the haemodynamic changes associated with stent malapposition in an idealised coronary artery

Poon, EKW; Barlis, P; Moore, S; Pan, W-H; Liu, Y; Ye, Y; Xue, Y; Zhu, SJ; Ooi, ASH (ELSEVIER SCI LTD, 2014-09-22)

The deployment of a coronary stent near complex lesions can sometimes lead to incomplete stent apposition (ISA), an undesirable side effect of coronary stent implantation. Three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics ...