Rodrigo Altamirano

Costa Rica Medicina, Fotografía, Música

[Indian Doctor🇮🇳 @Indian__doctor]

📢 BREAKING:
New 2025 CDC Guidelines for #Tuberculosis 🔬
➡️ Moxifloxacin is IN
➡️ Ethambutol is OUT

A major shift in TB management!
#MedTwitter #MedicalUpdates

[د. علي الماجد @ANHMM1418]

This is so typical

[André Martin Mansoor @AndreMansoor]

1/10
A young man presents with hematuria and is found to have these painful skin lesions on physical exam.

[TA✨ @DrPharmDMDTh]

TOP 10 DRUG INTERACTIONS

[Carlos Collet MD PhD @ColletCarlos]

Nightmare in the cath lab 😱

The balloon gets stuck after post-dilation. It gets worse the shaft breaks when you try to pull the system out - you can't retrieve it, you can't snare it.

😨What would you do?

@jeroen_sonck @jcspratt @PCRonline

[@X @MoreXGrok]

4-month-old infant

inability to take feeds, peeling skin all over the body

history of loose stools 2 weeks back.

There was no significant past or birth history

Probable diagnosis?

[Sam Ghali, M.D. @EM_RESUS]

Here’s the most adorable yet scariest Echo I’ve ever seen

What’s the diagnosis?

[Rodrigo Altamirano @RodsAltamirano]

@victorabadf1 Cómo que Ricciardo ya no quiere ese asiento en redbull 🙄

[Rodrigo Altamirano @RodsAltamirano]

@victorabadf1 Ricciardo se tomó muy a pecho que le iban a dar el red bull, pero así los va a convencer de lo contrario

[Rodrigo Altamirano @RodsAltamirano]

@SkySportsF1 His thinking that Ollie is gonna be a lot cheaper than Hamilton

[Rodrigo Altamirano @RodsAltamirano]

@MattP1Gallagher Magnussen better start looking for a job for next year!

[Irina Akhmedova @Irina67790690]

We have no ideas.
F, 22 y.o.
No history of heart disease.
No history of other pathologies.

She returned 10 days ago after a holiday in Sri Lanka.

#Cardiotwitter #echofirst
More images below.
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[AATS Journals @AATSJournals]

Risk profile and operative outcomes in pts with and without Marfan syndrome undergoing thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair.

Read the #JTCVS article by Lau, Girardi, et al: https://t.co/gIf0jJf6ye

📽️ Full video: https://t.co/xfD0Yqp7to

@AATSHQ @arnaldodimagli @talalzghari

[Lyell Jones MD @LyellJ]

A #ContinuumCase conundrum:

A 52 year old develops abrupt left face and arm weakness. DWI below

The case seems straightforward until you notice on exam, in addition to somnolence and left hemiparesis, he has bleeding gums…

Time to solve a mystery, #neurotwitter!🧵on 🧠&🩸

[Cardiotipss @cardiotipss]

📍Levosimendan
✴️ *Metabolito activo:* OR. 1896/ dura hasta 9 días activo
Mecanismo de acción:
1️⃣ Inotropismo: Sensibilizador de calcio (Troponina )
2️⃣Vasodilatador: Canales cito -K
3️⃣ Cardioprotector; Canales mito K
📚Estudios: LIDO/RUSSLAN/REVIVE/SURVIVE/LION/CTS/CHEETAH/LICORN

[Rodrigo Altamirano @RodsAltamirano]

@VictorBariz Sí me acuerdo...

[Urgencias Críticas @UrgCrit]

Fórmulas para corrección del CO2. En ventilación mecánica
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[NephroPOCUS @NephroP]

#POCUS quiz of the day:
What is the circled structure in this subxiphoid #echofirst view?
POLL in thread
#MedEd #Nephpearls

[Journal of Brown Hospital Medicine @BrownJHM]

Patient w/diarrhea for 3 months and skin peeling. Exam w/new murmur and wheezing. What is the likely diagnosis? (Image Medbullets) #Medtwitter

[Medicine's Bizarre History @FaisalGhani_]

THE PATIENT WHO DEVISED HIS OWN SURGERY!

The patient Dr. Michael DeBakey (seated), himself benefited from heart surgery he had devised. In 2005, DeBakey suffered from aortic dissection. Years prior, he had pioneered surgical treatment to treat this condition.