Dr. Bill Lyon

Dr Lyon graduated in Medicine and Surgery from Flinders University 1991. After extensive surgical training in general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery across Australia and England, During that time he won numerous prizes and scholarships in both clinical work and research as well as being recognised for his clinical teaching. He has been involved in Anatomy teaching for training surgeons and also teaching Advanced Life Support (ATLS) to GP’s. Dr Lyon has numerous publications in international peer reviewed journals.

Until recently he continued to be clinically involved with the “Open heart international” as part of the surgical team travelling with them and operating in Rwanda and Fiji, now his support is less hands on.

He then spent the several years undertaking cosmetic surgery training with the Australasian College of Cosmetic Surgery and has gained extensive experience with world-renowned plastic and cosmetic surgeons who are leaders in the field. He has a passion for facial and body aesthetics and has furthered his facial surgical training working with renowned Australian surgeons, giving him an enormous experience and log of facial work, as well as involving new and breakthrough innovations and technologies such as lipogems with fat transfer and stem cell therapies improving skin tone texture and quality.

Dr Lyon’s gentle and caring approach, will provide you with an honest opinion regarding your suitability for your procedure, putting your safety and wellbeing first. Recognised for his meticulous ability to provide a natural look by combining art and surgical techniques.

Reiger NA, Lyon WJ, Bryce RL, Birrell SN
“A case of colonic pseudoobstruction in pregnancy.”
Aust NZ J Obstet Gynaecol 1996;36:363-5

American College Of Cardiology Extended Learning Interview
Dr Wienberg; Wellington NZ Aug 1999
“Elevated preoperative troponin T predicts adverse outcomes after cardiac surgery.”
ACCEL tape, Volume 31, No 9, September 1999.

Kollias J, Lyon WJ, Langlois LeP, Gill PG
“Preoperative doppler imaging in TRAM flap breast reconstruction.”
ANZ J Surg 1998

Lyon W, Baker R, Tirimacco R, Knight J
“Preoperative Troponin T as a predictor of outcome with cardiac surgery.”
ANZ J Med 2000; 30: 159

Lyon W, Baker R, Andrew M, Tirimacco R, Knight J
“The prognostic value of preoperative troponin t in cardiac surgery.”
J Mol Cell Cardiol 2000

Lyon W, Van den Brink O, Pepe P, Wowk M, Morasco S, Rosenfeldt FL.
Similar therapeutic serum levels attained with emulsified and oil based preparations of Coenzyme Q10
Asia Pac J Nutrition 2001; 10: 212-215

Koukourou A, Lyon W, Rice J, Wattchow DA
“Prospective randomized trial of polypropylene mesh compared with nylon darn in inguinal hernia repair.”
Br J Surg 2001; 88: 931-4

Rosenfeldt FL, Pepe S, Linnane A, Nagley P, Rowland M, Ou R, Morasco S, Lyon W, Esmore D
“Coenzyme Q10 protects the aging heart against stress: studies in rats, human tissues and patients.”
Ann N Y Acad Sci, 2002; 959: 355-9; discussion 463-5

Rosenfeldt FL, Pepe S, Linnane A, Nagley P, Rowland M, Ou R, Morasco S, Lyon W.
“The effects of aging on the response to cardiac surgery: protective strategies for the ageing myocardium.”
Biogerentology 2002; 3: 37-40

Lyon WJ, Baker RA, Tirimacco R, Andrew MJ, White GH, Knight JL
“Relationship between elevated preoperative troponin T and adverse outcomes following cardiac surgery”
ANZ J Surg. 2003 Jan-Feb;73(1-2):40-4

Rosenfeldt F, Marasco S, Lyon W, Pepe S.et al
“Coenzyme Q10 therapy before cardiac surgery improves mitochondrial function and in vitro contractility of myocardial tissue.”
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2005 Jan;129(1):25-32.

Yoshiyuki Tokuda*, Peter W. Grant, William J. Lyon et al Levosimendan for patients with impaired left ventricular function undergoing cardiac surgery
Interact CardioVasc Thorac Surg 2006(5):322-326

Accepted for Publication

Lyon W
Pectus Excavatum Repair; Is this a purely cosmetic procedure
J Cosmetic Surg & Med

Lyon W
The use of bidirectional threads to alter the infra-mammary crease following revision breast augmentation surgery
J Cosmetic Surg & Med

“Preoperative doppler imaging in TRAM flap breast reconstruction.”
RACS meeting, SA, Sept 1997

“The use of Doppler in TRAM flap breast reconstruction.”
Kollias J presenter in absentia
RACS meeting, Sydney NSW, 1998

“Elevated preoperative troponin T predicts adverse outcomes after cardiac surgery.”
Cardiac Society meeting, Wellington, 1999

“The prognostic value of preoperative troponin T in cardiac surgery.”
ISHR meeting, Auckland 1999

“The predictive value of preoperative troponin T in coronary artery graft surgery.”
ASCTS meeting, Noosa 1999. (TAG Prize winner)

“Effect of topical and systemic coenzyme Q10 therapy on cardiac coenzyme Q10 content and mitochondrial function”
RACS meeting, Melbourne 2000

“Mitochondrial cardioprotection by coenzyme Q10 against ischaemia/reperfusion of human myocardium”
ISHR meeting, Melbourne 2000

“Improved Outcomes in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery with Preoperative Coenzyme Q10: A Randomised, Double-Blind Placebo Controlled Trial”
Cardiac Society meeting, Auckland 2001. (Ralph Reader Prize Finalist)

“Double Valve Replacement, A Single Campus 10 Year Experience”
ASCTS meeting, Noosa 2002

“Long term follow up of double valve replacement”
Connolly K presenter in absentia
Cardiac Society meeting, Sydney 2003