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Appendix #POCUS- adults can be just big kids
20 year old male, thin body habitus, presents with periumbilical abdominal pain that now in RLQ. The linear transducer is placed over his area of maximal tenderness.
My article on ‘Salvage of Existing Venotomy site and tunnel: Redeeming the ‘Fallen dialysis catheter’ published in Journal of Vascular access. Thanks to @tvachh, @ASDINNews, @SAGEJournals 🙏
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Why do we use ACE inhibitors in scleroderma renal crisis?
I learned this early in training but never understood why these drugs were so game-changing.
Let's have a look.
@khaledyb@Buck1486@DrAnil001@ASDINNews @OSUNephrology Severe venous outflow stenosis (site of stenosis is likely at the graft-vein anastomosis) & clinically accompanied by the following: hyper-pulsatile graft, high venous pressure & prolonged bleeding following de-cannulation
- Your comment on LN with negative serology.
=I would consider it very dangerous.sever infection should be excluded and also we should be humble to recognize that we don't know everything In literature we had Diabetic nephropathy without DM
Dr.Rennke in amazing @GlomCon LN talk.
@NephJC So sad that they are making RENAL sound like your saying the R word, we love both KIDNEY and RENAL, nobody may force patients, physicians or scientists to eliminate RENAL. Cardiologists and their patients never force anybody to replace cardiac with heart. It is still CCU, not HCU