Jeyamani Ramachandran

A call for action with the burden of cirrhosis in Australia

Unlike most other chronic diseases and cancers in Australia, outcomes for cirrhosis and hepatocellular cancer are not improving. Public hospitals are overwhelmed by decompensated cirrhosis and struggling to provide best practice care for the large population of patients with less...

Clinical significance of resting and dobutamine stress myocardial work in cirrhotic cardiomyopathy

Abstract Background Myocardial work (MW), an emerging measure of cardiac function, has not been assessed in cirrhotic cardiomyopathy (CCM) unlike global longitudinal strain (GLS). Aims To evaluate MW in cirrhosis with transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) and dobutamine stress ech...