Bill van Gaal

Impact of prehospital opioid dose on angiographic and clinical outcomes in acute coronary syndromes

Himawan Fernando, Ziad Nehme, Diem Dinh, Emily Andrew, Angela Brennan, William Shi, Jason Bloom, Stephen James Duffy, James Shaw, Karlheinz Peter, Voltaire Nadurata, William Chan, Jamie Layland, Melanie Freeman, William Van Gaal, Stephen Bernard, Jeffrey Lefkovits, Danny Liew, Michael Stephenson, Karen Smith, et al.

Journal article  |  2022  |  EMERGENCY MEDICINE JOURNAL

BACKGROUND: An adverse interaction whereby opioids impair and delay the gastrointestinal absorption of oral P2Y12 inhibitors has b..

Non-Newtonian Endothelial Shear Stress Simulation: Does It Matter?

Vikas Thondapu, Daisuke Shishikura, Jouke Dijkstra, Shuang J Zhu, Eve Revalor, Patrick W Serruys, William J van Gaal, Eric KW Poon, Andrew Ooi, Peter Barlis

Journal article  |  2022  |  Front Cardiovasc Med

Patient-specific coronary endothelial shear stress (ESS) calculations using Newtonian and non-Newtonian rheological models were pe..

Impact of COVID-19 on Cardiovascular Testing in the United States Versus the Rest of the World

Cole B Hirschfeld, Leslee J Shaw, Michelle C Williams, Ryan Lahey, Todd C Villines, Sharmila Dorbala, Andrew D Choi, Nishant R Shah, David A Bluemke, Daniel S Berman, Ron Blankstein, Maros Ferencik, Jagat Narula, David Winchester, Eli Malkovskiy, Benjamin Goebel, Michael J Randazzo, Juan Lopez-Mattei, Purvi Parwani, Joao V Vitola, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  JACC-CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING

OBJECTIVES: This study sought to quantify and compare the decline in volumes of cardiovascular procedures between the United State..

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Cardiovascular Testing in Asia: The IAEA INCAPS-COVID Study.

Takashi Kudo, Ryan Lahey, Cole B Hirschfeld, Michelle C Williams, Bin Lu, Mirvat Alasnag, Mona Bhatia, Hee-Seung Henry Bom, Tairkhan Dautov, Reza Fazel, Ganesan Karthikeyan, Felix YJ Keng, Ronen Rubinshtein, Nathan Better, Rodrigo Julio Cerci, Sharmila Dorbala, Paolo Raggi, Leslee J Shaw, Todd C Villines, João V Vitola, et al.

Journal article  |  2021  |  JACC Asia

BACKGROUND: The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic significantly affected management of cardiovascular disease around th..

Colchicine in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndrome The Australian COPS Randomized Clinical Trial

David C Tong, Stephen Quinn, Arthur Nasis, Chin Hiew, Philip Roberts-Thomson, Heath Adams, Rumes Sriamareswaran, Nay M Htun, William Wilson, Dion Stub, William van Gaal, Laurie Howes, Nicholas Collins, Andy Yong, Ravinay Bhindi, Robert Whitbourn, Astin Lee, Chris Hengel, Kaleab Asrress, Melanie Freeman, et al.

Journal article  |  2020  |  CIRCULATION

BACKGROUND: Inflammation plays a crucial role in clinical manifestations and complications of acute coronary syndromes (ACS). Colc..

The Cardio-Med survey tool: development and pilot validation of a FFQ in a multicultural cardiology cohort

Teagan Kucianski, Antonia Thodis, Hassan Vally, Antigone Kouris-Blazos, George Moschonis, Andrew Wilson, William van Gaal, Audrey Tierney, Catherine Itsiopoulos

Journal article  |  2020  |  PUBLIC HEALTH NUTRITION

OBJECTIVE: (i) Describe the development of a multipurpose Cardio-Med survey tool (CMST) comprising a semi-quantitative FFQ designe..

The AUStralian MEDiterranean Diet Heart Trial (AUSMED Heart Trial): A randomized clinical trial in secondary prevention of coronary heart disease in a multiethnic Australian population: Study protocol

Catherine Itsiopoulos, Teagan Kucianski, Hannah L Mayr, William J van Gaal, Miguel Angel Martinez-Gonzalez, Hassan Vally, Michael Kingsley, Antigone Kouris-Blazos, Jessica Radcliffe, Leonie Segal, Laima Brazionis, Agus Salim, Audrey C Tierney, Kerin O'Dea, Andrew Wilson, Colleen J Thomas

Journal article  |  2018  |  AMERICAN HEART JOURNAL

The Mediterranean diet was first characterized as a heart-protective diet in the 1960s. The significant cardioprotective effects o..

Clozapine-Induced Myocarditis or Acute Coronary Syndrome? Optical Coherence Tomography to the Rescue

Ayodeji Dina, Peter Barlis, William van Gaal

Journal article  |  2018  |  CASE REPORTS IN CARDIOLOGY

Chest pain and troponin elevation may be due to an acute coronary syndrome, myocarditis, acute cardiomyopathy, or other less commo..

Safety and Feasibility of His-Bundle Pacing: An Australian Experience

U Mohamed, C Chow, B Abu Baker, I Wang, V Thondapu, W Van Gaal, A MacIsaac, P Barlis

Journal article  |  2018  |  Heart, Lung and Circulation

Clinical characteristics and outcomes of octogenarians presenting with ST elevation myocardial infarction in the Australian population

Wei Liang Sim, Vivek Mutha, Muhammad Asrar Ul-Haq, Victoria Sasongko, William Van-Gaal

Journal article  |  2017  |  WORLD JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY

AIM: To investigate the characteristics and outcomes of octogenarians who presented with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI..