Advertise in Pindara Magazine My Birthday Present Five years ago my wife and myself were on our annual summer holiday. At breakfast one morning my wife was reading the local newspaper and she announced to me that she was going to give me a surprise birthday present. I pestered her to tell me what the present was and eventually she told me that she was going to buy me a ‘Bidet’. I told her that I knew where The BIDET SHOP ® was as I had passed it once before.We both went to The BIDET SHOP® that day where we met with one of the state sales representatives. He was most helpful and demonstrated all the different models that were on display. We eventually decided on the ‘Coway’ as this model appealed to us as being very stylish and ‘user friendly’. The Bidet was delivered to our home, arriving a couple of days after our return from our holiday. With the easy to follow instructions it took me only about 20-30 minutes to install.After five years of using the Bidet we have not experienced any problems whatsoever and I wonder how we ever did without it for so long. I have kept in touch with The BIDET SHOP® and the man who sold me my Bidet has become a good friend, so much so I have become an ‘honorary’ consultant for the BIDET SHOP®. I have given many demonstrations of the unit in our home to prospective buyers. On one occasion recently I paid a visit to a gentleman who had just had a new Bidet installed and he needed some advice on the unit as he had recently undergone radiotherapy, which meant that he did not have a sense of feeling in the area where it was needed. I thought that the best way for me to carry out the test was to lock the door and carry out the ultimate test by dropping my ‘dacks’ to test the pressure. I’m pleased to say that all was fine and I left a satisfied customer. I highly recommend The BIDET SHOP ® as the place to purchase your Bidet. Signed, Des Parr. **Call The BIDET SHOP® 07 5591 7744 PM8 highly efficacious but also an extremely safe treatment, with no other drug interactions, absolutely minimal side effect and easy/painless to receive. The drugs spoken of above lower eye pressure by reducing the production of fluid within the eye but in some instances anatomical blockages within the eye cause the pressure problems. This is the cause of glaucoma in the so-called narrow angle glaucomas – the solution in these circumstances is to cut a pressure release valve in the peripheral iris. This is called a Peripheral Iridotomy and is cut with the YAG laser written about above (occasionally the natural lens requires removal if an iridotomy is insufficient or if a cataract is present). Anatomical obstructions in microscopic form can be present in the eye fluid back pressure control mechanisms in the eye. These type of obstructions occur in the anatomical structure called the Trabecular Meshwork in the so-called open angle glaucomas. The newest treatment in this respect is called the iStent (made by Glaukos). Much like a stent in the heart vasculature can re-establish blood flow to the heart muscle, so can the iStent re-establish flow through a blocked Trabecular Meshwork. This device is inserted through the Trabecular Meshwork into Schlemms canal at the time of cataract surgery to bypass the blocked Trabecular Meshwork. The procedure is simple and quick adding minimal time and cost to the cataract surgery. Retinal Drugs One of the leading causes of blindness is Age Related Macular Degeneration or ARMD or purely AMD. This is, as the name suggests, an age related eye affliction. The disorder is restricted to the macular, not affecting the peripheral retina and comes in two forms, wet and dry. The dry type progresses very slowly with very little available to manage the condition except for the possible slowing of progression by appropriate dietary means (the coloured and leafy vegetables and supplements such as Macuvision) but when the dry variety converts to the wet form of AMD by the development of aberrant blood vessels with bleeding and serum leakage, vision can become significantly distorted and decline. One of the more significant advances in eye treatments has emerged from the research units in the treatment of these aberrant macula blood vessels and that is the development of the AVEGF’s (Anti Vascular Endothelia Growth Factor), originally used in the treatment of certain cancers. The action of closing down blood vessels and hence causing cessation of the leakage of serum has ideal application to the treatment of these aberrant blood vessels (SRNVM – Sub Retinal Neovascular Membrane) in AMD. Avastin (Bevacizumab) was the first with more specific eye suitable agents to have followed – Lucentis (Ranibizumab) and Eylea (Aflibercept). These agents are injected in very small quantities through an area of the eye that has no important structures called the Pars Plana, in the vitreous cavity. The presence of these AVEGF agents in the eye closes the offending blood vessels allowing the macula to return to normal or close to normal depending on the rapidity of diagnosis and treatment. pm Advertise in Australia’s only private hosiptal magazine and the Gold Coast’s most exciting publication enjoyed by over 250,000* readers annually. Call Peter Wastie today Mobile: 0411 453 444 peter@nudepublishing.com.au pindaramagazine.com.au
Pindara Private Hospital Magazine - Issue Three
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