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Why Do You Need A Heart Specialist When Experiencing Sleep Apnoea?

15 November 2024

For many people, the idea of a heart specialist treating sleep apnoea might seem unexpected. After all, isn’t sleep apnoea more of a breathing or sleep disorder?

Diskusi Parkway CME, Dr Paul Ong Sebut Kardiovaskular Penyebab Kematian Tertinggi

11 November 2024

Analisadaily.com, Medan – Penyakit kardiovaskular, termasuk penyakit jantung merupakan penyebab kematian tertinggi di dunia. Bahkan, penyakit ini sudah semakin umum di Singapura.

Heart Disease: Screening and Diagnostics

20 September 2023

When exactly should you start checking for heart disease, and how does a doctor screen and diagnose a heart condition? Cardiologist Dr Paul Ong explains the details.

Detecting Heart Diseases – Screening and Diagnostic Options

27 September 2022

Standfirst: When exactly should you start checking for heart disease, and how does a doctor screen and diagnose a heart condition? Cardiologist Dr Paul Ong explains the details. As the saying goes, early detection saves lives. Particularly so in the case of heart disease, because discovering the possibility of a heart condition will allow a doctor to take the necessary steps to diagnose the exact issue and prevent the condition from worsening.

INOCA – Ischaemia with Non Obstructive Coronary Artery

20 September 2022

What happens if the angiogram is normal but patient still have chest pain? Can you have heart pain with normal coronary arteries?

There is also a small group of patients who come to me with classical symptoms of heart pain (angina) and often with abnormal exercise ECG. Yet they may have normal CT coronary angiogram showing widely patent heart vessels. This group of patients may have Coronary Microvascular Disease (CMD). Although the coronary microvascular system is one of the main components of coronary circulation, its relevance has been underestimated for a long time, since micro-vessels are invisible by the current imaging techniques, and their function may be assessed only indirectly.

Latest on Hypertension Management

15 July 2022

Why this topic? Based on your experience, what is the prevalence in Singapore?

Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is a serious medical condition. The World Health Organization estimates that 1.28 billion people have hypertension, and fewer than one in five have it under control. In Singapore, is it estimated that 1 in 4 Singapore residents aged 30 to 69 years have hypertension.

别让死神夺走你的心

18 January 2022

在新加坡，每天有19人死于心血管疾病。一般心脏疾病患者可植入支架或做心脏绕道手术；至于那些病况严重的的罕见心脏疾病患者，如动脉严重堵塞或主动脉剥离，他们的手术选择又有哪些？受访专科医生也分享这类心血管疾病的征兆和预防方法。自疫情暴发以来，由于人们的活动减少，患上三高的案例激增，心脏疾病和糖尿病患者也增多，情况值得关注。

Mount Elizabeth Hospitals - Bangladesh Office

30 December 2021

Meet the team behind another milestone in our mission to achieve better and safer treatment for our heart patients with the first-ever Impella Assisted Coronary Angioplasty.

This was done at Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital on 29 December 2021, and is the first for a private hospital in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Supported by an experienced team of nurses, the procedure was successfully performed by Cardiologists Dr Lim Tai Tian, Dr Paul Ong and Dr Edgar Tay.