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Transitional Care to Reduce Readmission Rates
Author(s): Wan Xian Chan , Weiqin Lin , Raymond Ching Chiew Wong Added: 3 years ago
Southeast Asian nations are increasingly facing a higher burden of cardiovascular risk factors,1 which in turn correlate with a propensity towards cardiac-related diseases including heart failure (HF). In Singapore, HF is the most common cardiac cause of hospitalisation, accounting for 17 % of all cardiac admissions2 In 2015, public hospitals recorded in excess of 5,700 unique HF admissions.3 The… View more

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Heart Failure
Jack WC Tan
Research Area(s) / Expertise:

MI/ACS

Angiography

Peripheral Artery Disease - General

Intervention

 Job title: Head and Senior Consultant
Academic History Dr Jack Tan graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, the National University of Singapore in 1997. In 2007, he spent one year at UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento with Dr John Laird to complete his peripheral vascular interventional program. He is doubly accredited for cardiology and intensive care medicine in Singapore. He is the deputy head of cardiology and director of the… View more
Khung Keong Yeo
Research Area(s) / Expertise:

Intervention

Coronary Interventions

 Job title: Clinical Associate Professor and Senior Consultant
Dr Khung Keong Yeo is aClinical Associate Professor and Senior Consultant at theNational Heart Centre in Singapore. Dr Khung Keong graduated from the National University of Singapore, where he earned is Batchelor in Medicine and Surgery. He then travelled to the United States of America, where he gained his American Board of Internal Medicine Certifications in Internal Medicine from the… View more
Johnathan Yap
Research Area(s) / Expertise:

Coronary Interventions

Coronary Physiology

 Job title: Consultant Cardiologist
Clinical Associate Professor Jonathan Yap is a Consultant with the Department of Cardiology at NHCS. His subspeciality interest is in interventional cardiology, pulmonary hypertension and structural heart disease including transcatheter aortic valve interventions (TAVI) for aortic stenosis. He spent a year in the United States performing his advanced fellowship in structural heart interventions… View more
Global Heart Failure Burden
Author(s): Bahira Shahim , Chris J Kapelios , Gianluigi Savarese , et al Added: 8 months ago

Heart Failure
Hospice Use Among Patients with Heart Failure
Author(s): Sarah H Cross , Arif H Kamal , Donald H Taylor Jr , et al Added: 3 years ago
Heart failure (HF) is estimated to affect 26 million people worldwide and is responsible for an annual global economic burden of US$108 billion.1,2 An ageing population and a reduction in mortality from other conditions such as acute MI are expected to result in an increased HF prevalence throughout much of the world.1,3–6 The prevalence of HF has particularly increased among those aged 85 years… View more

Heart Failure
Global Public Health Burden of Heart Failure
Author(s): Gianluigi Savarese , Lars H Lund Added: 3 years ago
Heart failure (HF) is a complex clinical syndrome characterised by the reduced ability of the heart to pump and/or fill with blood.1,2 From a physiological point of view, HF can be defined as an inadequate cardiac output to meet metabolic demands or adequate cardiac output secondary to compensatory neurohormonal activation (generally manifesting as increased left ventricular filling pressure).2… View more

Standards & Guidelines

Heart Failure
Author(s): Joseph Gallagher , Kenneth McDonald , Mark Ledwidge , et al Added: 3 years ago
Patients with heart disease in Africa commonly present with heart failure both for admission to hospital1 and in the outpatient setting.2 Recent data suggests that, in line with high income countries, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is also becoming more common.3 Data from the 12 clinical studies performed before 2005 in eight sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) countries have shown that up… View more

Imaging & Diagnostics
The Burden of Disease of HFpEF
Author(s): Chris J Kapelios , Bahira Shahim , Lars H Lund , et al Added: 5 months ago

Heart Failure