Dr Alannah Quinlivan PhD candidate, Universityof Melbourne, is the Harrison Pennicott Scholarship Recipient funded by Scleroderma Victoria.Gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms are an extremely common manifestation of Scleroderma (SSc) affecting up to 95% of patients. Any area of the GI system can be affected from the mouth...
Dr Jessica Fairley is a Rheumatologist who commenced a PhD supervised by A/Prof Mandy Nikpour, Dr Laura Ross and A/Prof Andre La Gerche in February 2022. ...
Gastric antral vascular ectasia in systemic sclerosis: a study of its epidemiology, disease characteristics and impact on survivalPublished 2022Gastric antral vascular ectasia (GAVE) is an under-recognised yet treatable vascular and gastric manifestation of systemic sclerosis (SSc), which occurs relatively frequency in SSc. Within the Australian Scleroderma...
Scleroderma in Cairns: an epidemiological study....
1. Implementation and feasibility testing of the new Australian Scleroderma Interest Group algorithm for pulmonary arterial hypertension screening. ASIG has published a new screening algorithm for PAH screening in scleroderma to allow early detection of this serious complication and initiation of life-saving therapy. This new algorithm...
1. Prospective validation of the ASIG PAH screening algorithm One of ASIG’s key activities is the Australian Scleroderma Screening Program for early identification of heart and lung complications, such as pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). We have developed and validated a novel, cost-effective screening algorithm for PAH, using...
Assoc. Prof Peter Yousef - Department of Rheumatology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Subject: The utility of biomarkers of interstitial lung disease in systemic sclerosisContinuation of ASIG database extrapolation - Over 1700 patients have contributed their data and biosamples annually to the ASIG database, many for several years. The...