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MQ Health’s Professor Martin Ng successfully performed a minimally invasive repair of the tricuspid valve to address tricuspid regurgitation, a condition where the damaged valve leads to the backflow of blood from the right ventricle to the right at...

Retrosigmoid facial nerve microvascular decompression is standard treatment for hemifacial spasm. Manifesting as facial twitching on one side of the face, the condition is caused by blood vessel pressing on the facial nerve. A similar (and much more commo...

“It took a long time to sink in and I felt pretty horrible,” says Luke. “But I came good after about six months.” Newly married to Cobie, the couple, both 24 years old at the time, decided to use IVF to conceive. “It was pret...

MQ Health interventional pulmonologist Professor Alvin Ing performed Australia’s first bronchoscopic thermal vapour ablation (BTVA) procedure in a clinical setting at Macquarie University Hospital in 2019. BTVA is a recently developed method of endo...

An arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is an abnormal tangle of blood vessels in the brain or spine, with haemorrhage a major risk. Melbourne-based Jack developed an AVM at the age of five. He was treated with LINAC radiosurgery, which obliterated most but n...