Cardiologist Director of Echocardiography, The Prince Charles Hospital, Train Enthusiast

Joined October 2015
The 2025 @ASE360 award winners page is now live: asescientificsessions.org/aw… Read more about these well-deserving recipients in the May/June 2025 issue of Echo magazine: asecho.org/magazine-issue/ec… Celebrations will continue at the 2025 ASE Scientific Sessions. asescientificsessions.org/
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It's a wrap👐 Echo Australia 2023 is over for another year. Thanks to Natalie Edwards & @ScaliaGreg for putting together a great, echo-packed program. Special thanks to our international speakers - @maddiejane25, S Allen Luis & Mohamed Saric & the delegates. @TheCommonGoodAU
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Largest study ever performed assessing the mortality association with increasing LV mass from the National Echo Database of Australia, presented @escardio #ESCCongress. New mortality threshold at 88g/m2 for men and 82g/m2 for women. @thecsanz @ASE360 @EchoIQ_AI @ISHBP @EchofirstB
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Here it is! The results of the progrnosis of all forms of MR presented this afternoon at #ESC2023 #ESCCongress. 608,570 individuals NEDA, showing that mild, moderate and severe MR all associated with increased mortality. Association independent of age, sex and LV disease. @ASE360
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Distinction between pre- & post-capillary pulmonary hypertension is important for guiding therapy. Here are some echo clues to help distinguish between these levels of PH. More info about ePLAR: Int J Cardiol. 2016 Jun 1;212:379-86. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.03.035 #echofirst
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Congratulations to my old fellow @ScaliaGreg and Brisbane colleagues for devising the ePLAR index, now shown to predict mortality in COVID pts. A quick way to distinguish pre- from post-capillary PH! @HFpEF @NMCardioVasc @JaeKOh2 @ASE360 #EchoFirst
Echo in COVID-19: 🔥Hot off the press.... ePLAR (TRVmax divided by mitral E:e' septal) reported as a powerful prognostic tool in COVID-19 patients - especially when PASP is elevated. See: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article… @ase360 #echofirst @ScaliaGreg
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Echo in COVID-19: 🔥Hot off the press.... ePLAR (TRVmax divided by mitral E:e' septal) reported as a powerful prognostic tool in COVID-19 patients - especially when PASP is elevated. See: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article… @ase360 #echofirst @ScaliaGreg
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What a great initiative by the @ASA Board to grant past & future "Pru Pratten Memorial Lifetime Achievement Award" recipients with Honorary ASA Lifetime Membership! I'm very proud to be one of these recipients (awarded 2010 & the 1st cardiac sonographer to receive)😊 #echofirst
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Excellent and beautiful overview on #cardiacAmyloidosis by @ScaliaGreg at 🏝️#EchoHawaii - the essential role of #EchoFirst in diagnosing and managing this now treatable disease @MarthaGrogan1 @Amyloidosisfdn @JLindnerMD @JamesDThomasMD1
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⁦@ScaliaGreg⁩ couldn’t make it to Singapore (no chili crab for you!), but he’s still sharing his wisdom on aortic stenosis with us. #echofirst #echoasia ⁦@ASE360⁩ ⁦@JaeKOh2⁩
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PhD submitted today. Lots of hard work and sacrifice but lots of reward along the way with 5 publications awarded and one under review. To the future but many thanks to my principal supervisor Professor Jonathan Chan for his guidance and advice along the way.
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Presented my PhD thesis on Friday prior to formal submission in the next 6 weeks. Supervisors and examiner were happy and now the final formatting to be done. 6 research chapters, 5 published and one close to submission.
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Greg Scalia retweeted
So excited that the new TEE Guideline is finally in press @JournalASEcho! sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Thanks to all my coauthors!! @robertomlang @ScaliaGreg @LucySafi @nishath_quader @gb_mackensen @OKhaliqueMD @JaeKOh2 @LindaGillamMD @EchoKen @SLittleMD. Look for the ASE Webinars!
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Fantastic lectures during the Myocardial Strain Imaging session at #ASE2021 #EchoAtHome #VirtualEcho #echofirst @ASE360 @NatEdwards81 @EchoUmland @KristenBillick @EchoKen
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Estimating PASP from #EchoFirst TR jet? Measure the chin (modal velocity) and not the beard. Superb talk by Francois Haddad full of pearls for imaging pulmonary hypertension. #ASE2021. @ASE360
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Great data emphasizing the "rule of nines"..e'<9, E/e' >9 and E >90 associated with poor prognosis in >400000 people. Awesome data... Well done NEDA! – at Brisbane, Queensland
academic.oup.com/ehjcimaging… Our big data on diastolic function has been published today. ASE/EACVI guidelines predict mortality but many indeterminates. Mortality thresholds with Individual parameters: ❤️ E>90cm/s ❤️ Septal e'<9cm/s ❤️ E:e' > 9 ❤️ LAVi>32ml/m2 #echofirst @EchofirstB
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Greg Scalia retweeted
#WASE LV Diastolic Normal values in >2 k people in 15 countries 🔺white 42.8%,Asian 41.8% 🔺E & E/e’⬆️ in females 🔺LAVI similar men/women 🔺Aging ⬇️in E/A, E, e’ 🔺need age specific e’ cutoffs 🔺Need to⬆️lower limits of normal cutoff for LAVI bit.ly/3ieLBvR @ASE360
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Greg Scalia retweeted
In an article by #WASE investigators, Miyoshi et al. @robertomlang @FedericoAsch @denisamuraru (bit.ly/36CTg55) @JournalASEcho, compared to @ASE360 #EchoFirst guidelines, the nl values for LAVI was higher than guidelines (41 vs. 34 mL/m2), e' was lower.
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Greg Scalia retweeted
The October issue of @JournalASEcho focuses on myocardial work, a new noninvasive metric derived from strain and blood pressure. Check out the articles and the editorial by Chan et al. (bit.ly/3lfXaF2) #EchoFirst @ASE360 @DocStrom @iamritu @LucySafi @amerjohri
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