Liver Diseases
6 Threads
A patient with diabetes and recent NSTEMI treated with stent, clopidogrel, and atorvastatin ~2 months ago is transferred from OSH with ALT 1500, bilirubin 15 The leading diagnosis...
A patient with #cirrhosis and hepatic hydrothorax was admitted to an ICU 3 times for severe shortness of breath and hypoxia for urgent thoracentesis and diuretics So we put in an...
Almost took a month off from daily learning threads🧵 . @Akshay convinced me otherwise. Couldn’t skip the MICU! Follow below ⬇️ for this month’s daily learning: #MedEd #MedTwitter...
Case study : A 26 -year-old man. He had jaundiced. The laboratory results as the following : ●GOT: 720 U/L ( up to 40) ●GPT: 980 U/L ( up to 40) ●T- bilirubin: 21.5 mg/...
Images of Infectious Diseases 2 months after visiting family and friends in Manila: 39M. No PMH. One week of fever, chills, cough, pleuritic chest pain, RUQ pain. Now complains...
1/15 Why does alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (A1AT) cause liver disease (e.g. cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma)? I always assumed the mechanism was the same as for lung injur...
