Liver Disease
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New AASLD Portal Hypertension Guidance, makes biggest change in cirrhosis management in last 50 yrs: ➡️Recommends treatment with NSBB for cirrhosis patients with clinically signifi...
Acute liver failure is a true medical emergency & quick identification is crucial to avoid the death A short & sweet💞🧵 @rabihmgeha @DxRxEdu @ebtapper @rav7ks @ASanchez_PS @Satya...
1/45 Middle aged man, James is brought for admission Deeply jaundiced, confused, incomprehensible His wife is desperate Docs elsewhere gave him 3 more months of life What did...
1/ 'There's a self referred patient for you', ER doc tells me 'Self referred?' 'Yes, husband getting her discharged from multiple hospitals looking for a diagnosis' Self referra...
58y old man with chronic liver disease is rushed to ER very early morning after multiple seizures, loss of consciousness Blood glucose was 32mg! A diabetic since long, he was on...
RBCs inclusions👇🏼✨ Heinz bodies are associated with: 💁🏻♀️✨ - Unstable hemoglobin. - Hemoglobinopathies. - Some erythrocyte enzyme deficiencies such as glucose 6 phosphate dehydr...
🔴🟡🟢Hepatology Bedside Pearls! Abdominal Veins in liver disease🧵 https://t.co/XjfUr48H3r
Met @LizzieAbyMD as an #EmergingLiverAmbassador and now she is a super⭐️! Hope to follow in your 👟; give her a follow! 🧵 🚨VH 20% mortality rate 🚨Restrictive transfusion🩸 🚨IV Abx +...
1/ Case discussion with a friend involved a 56 y.o with : New ascites, malaise, low-grade fever Hct 35.8 WBC 9.7 Plts 120 ALT 59 U/L AST 96 U/L Alk phos 230 U/L T bilirubin 1.0 m...
1/15 Why do patients with liver injury or dysfunction have conjugated hyperbilirubinemia? If hepatocytes conjugate, why doesn't this "liver function" decrease in settings of sever...
1/ Why is the AST/ALT ratio >2 in alcoholic liver disease? If ALT is “specific” for the liver, one might expect that any liver process would lead to a low AST/ALT ratio. Let’s...