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David Playford

Professor of Cardiology, University of Notre Dame, Fremantle
Verified email at playford.biz
Cited by 4476

Poor long-term survival in patients with moderate aortic stenosis

G Strange, S Stewart, D Celermajer, D Prior… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - jacc.org
Background: Historical data suggesting poor survival in patients with aortic stenosis (AS)
who do not undergo treatment are largely confined to patients with severe AS. Objectives …

Pulmonary hypertension: prevalence and mortality in the Armadale echocardiography cohort

G Strange, D Playford, S Stewart, JA Deague, H Nelson… - Heart, 2012 - heart.bmj.com
Background Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) lacks community prevalence and outcome data.
Objective To characterise minimum 'indicative'prevalences and mortality data for all forms of …

Managing patients with moderate aortic stenosis

J Stassen, SH Ewe, SM Pio, P Pibarot, B Redfors… - Cardiovascular …, 2023 - jacc.org
Current guidelines recommend that clinical surveillance for patients with moderate aortic
stenosis (AS) and aortic valve replacement (AVR) may be considered if there is an indication …

Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Hemodynamics: Definitions, Outcomes, and Evidence Gaps: JACC State-of-the-Art Review

HC Herrmann, P Pibarot, C Wu, RT Hahn… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - jacc.org
A virtual workshop was organized by the Heart Valve Collaboratory to identify areas of
expert consensus, areas of disagreement, and evidence gaps related to bioprosthetic aortic …

State-of-the-art review: echocardiography in pulmonary hypertension

RL Cordina, D Playford, I Lang… - Heart, Lung and Circulation, 2019 - Elsevier
Pulmonary hypertension is a progressive and often fatal disease that frequently presents
with dyspnoea on exertion and results in increased right ventricular afterload and right …

Diastolic dysfunction and mortality in 436 360 men and women: the National Echo Database Australia (NEDA)

D Playford, G Strange, DS Celermajer… - European Heart …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Aims To examine the characteristics/prognostic impact of diastolic dysfunction (DD)
according to 2016 American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) and European Society of …

Ejection fraction and mortality: a nationwide register‐based cohort study of 499 153 women and men

S Stewart, D Playford, GM Scalia… - European journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Aims We investigated the sex‐based risk of mortality across the spectrum of left ventricular
ejection fraction (LVEF) in a large cohort of patients in Australia. Methods and results …

R222Q SCN5A Mutation Is Associated With Reversible Ventricular Ectopy and Dilated Cardiomyopathy

SA Mann, ML Castro, M Ohanian, G Guo… - Journal of the American …, 2012 - jacc.org
Objectives: The goal of this study was to characterize a variant in the SCN5A gene that
encodes the alpha-subunit of the cardiac sodium channel, Nav1. 5, which was identified in 1 …

Threshold of pulmonary hypertension associated with increased mortality

G Strange, S Stewart, DS Celermajer, D Prior… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - jacc.org
Background: There is increasing evidence that current thresholds for diagnosing pulmonary
hypertension (PHT) underestimate the prognostic impact of PHT. Objectives: The aim of this …

Prevalence of pulmonary arterial hypertension in an Australian scleroderma population: screening allows for earlier diagnosis

S Phung, G Strange, LP Chung, J Leong… - Internal medicine …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Background: We sought to determine the prevalence of pulmonary complications and
especially pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) in an Australian scleroderma population …