Dr David Prior
Senior Lecturer
Cardiologist
| telephone | +61 3 9288 4423 |
| facsmilie | +61 3 9288 4422 |
| david.prior @ svhm.org.au |
Profile
Dr David Prior is a Cardiologist with extensive experience in echocardiography and heart failure. His research interests include non-invasive assessment of myocardial function in athletes and patients with heart failure; the role of echocardiography in diagnosis and prognosis in heart failure; pulmonary hypertensionsion and non-invasive quantification of cardiac structure and function in small animals.
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Professional Activities:
Director of Non-invasive Cardiac imaging and Head of Cardiology Outpatient Clinic, St Vincent's Hospital. Committee Member of the Cardiac Society of Australia & New Zealand Victorian Division.
Qualifications
MBBS FRACP PhD, DDU, FCSANZ
Selected Publications
- Burns AT, La Gerche A, MacIsaac AI, Prior DL. 2008. Augmentation of left ventricular torsion with exercise is attenuated with age. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography 21(4):315-320
- La Gerche A, Connelly KA, MacIsaac AI, Mooney D, Prior DL. 2008. Biochemical and functional abnormalities of left and right ventricular function following ultra-endurance exercise. Heart (In press and available online)
- Burns AT, McDonald IG, Thomas JD, MacIsaac AI, Prior DL. 2008. Doin' the twist- New tools for an old concept of myocardial function. Heart (in press)
- Burns AT, Connelly K, La Gerche A, Mooney DJ, Chan J, Macisaac A & Prior D. 2007. Effect of heart rate on tissue Doppler measures of diastolic function. Echocardiography. 24 (7): 697-701.
- Connelly K, Kelly D, Zhang Y, Prior D, Martin J, Cox A, Thai K, Feneley MP, Tsoporis J, White KE, Krum H & Gilbert R. 2007. Functional, structural and molecular aspects of diastolic heart failure in the diabetic (mRen-2)27 rat. Cardiovascular Research. 76 (2): 280-91.
- Gheorghiade M, Sopko G, De Luca L, Velazquez E, ParkerJD, Binkley PF, Sadowski Z, Golba KS, Prior DL, Rouleau JL & Bonow RO. 2006. Navigating the Crossroads of Coronary Artery Disease and Heart Failure Circulation 114:1202-1213
- La Gerche A, Prior DL. 2007 Exercise – is it possible to have too much of a good thing? Heart Lung and Circulation 16 Suppl 3:S102-4
- Connelly K, Prior D, Kelly D, Feneley MP, Krum H & Gilbert R. 2006. Load-sensitive measures may overestimate global systolic function in the presence of left ventricular hypertrophy: a comparison with load-insensitive measures. American Journal of Physiology - Heart and Circulatory Physiology. 290 (4): H1699-705.
- Lee A, Godfrey T, Rowley K, Karschimkus C, Dragicevic G, Romas E, Clemens L, Wilson A, Nikpour M, Jenkins A, Best J & Prior D. 2006. Traditional risk factor assessment does not capture the extent of cardiovascular risk in systemic lupus erythematosus. Internal Medicine Journal. 30 (4): 237-43.
- Prior D, Flaim BD, Macisaac AI & Yii MY. 2006. Pre-operative use of levosimendan in two patients with severe aortic stenosis and left ventricular dysfunction. Heart Lung and Circulation. 15 (1): 56-8.
- Yii M, Yap , Kenny , Zimmet , Chao , Mooney & Prior D. 2006. Is there still a role for the classical COX-Maze III. ANZ Journal of Surgery. 76: 351-355.
- MacLaren G, Kluger R, Prior D, Royse A, Royse C. 2006 Tissue Doppler, strain and strain rate echocardiography: principles and potential perioperative applications. Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia 20(4):583-593.
- Connelly KA, Prior DL & Lin M. 2005. An unusual case of heart failure identified by echocardiography in an octogenarian. European Journal of Heart Failure. 7 (1): 99-102.
- Troughton RW, Prior DL, Frampton CM, Nash PJ, Pereira JJ, Martin MM, Fogarty A, Morehead A, Starling RC, Young JB, Thomas JD, Lauer MS & Klein AL. 2005. Usefulness of Tissue Doppler and Color M-Mode Indexes of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Predicting Outcomes in Systolic Left Ventricular Heart Failure (from the ADEPT Study). American Journal of Cardiology. 96: 257-262.
- Srichai MB, Jaber WA, Prior DL, Marso SP, Houghtaling PL, Menon V, Simoons ML, Harrington R & Hochman JS. 2004. Evaluating the benefits of glycoprotein llb/llla inhibitors in heart failure at baseline in acute coronary syndromes. American Heart Journal. 147: 84-90.
- Troughton RW, Prior DL, Pereira JJ, Martin MM, Fogarty A, Morehead A, Yandle T, Richards AM, Starling RC, Young JB, Klein AL & Thomas JD. 2004. Plasma B-type natriuretic peptide levels in systolic heart failure. Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 43 (3): 416-422.
- Wilson AM, O'Neal DN, Nelson CL, Prior DL, Best JD & Jenkins A. 2004. Comparison of arterial assessments in low and high vascular risk groups. American Journal of Hypertension. 17 (4): 285-291.