#Troponin

Mark B. Pochapin, MD

MarkPochapin

After a 4-day tour of duty here are some pearls:#COVIDPearl 1: PE and thrombosis are common. Have a low threshold to treat with full dose Lovenox when Ddimers are markedly

Chetan Shenoy

cshenoy3

It’s been over 2 months since the first descriptions of cardiac manifestations of Covid-19. There have been many papers and reviews on this topic. What have we learned about how

Samantha Wang

DrSamanthaWang

1/15 #MedTwitter: You're admitting a 64YO male with ESRD on HD for hyperkalemia after missing dialysis. A troponin was checked & returned at 0.78 (nl

Prof Darrel Francis ☺ Mk CardioFellows Great Again

ProfDFrancis

Thank you to an anonymous person, for looking after her neighbour kindly.Negative thanks for sending me a duff story.So overall, net neutral. 8-)(Details in thread that follows) For the education

Bao Tran, MD, RPVI

BaoGTran

(1/3) Here are a few STEMI-mimics ECG I encountered this month. All with normal coronaries #radialfirst. 31 year old with abdominal pain and vomiting. Normal coronaries. Final diagnosis Takotsubo. (2/3)

Marcus Weisgerber

MarcusReports

I've been MIA from Twitter for the past two weeks. Here's what happened to me after getting my second dose of the COVID-19 vaccinehttps://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/04/26/pentagon-tracking-14-cases-of-heart-inflammation-troops

Prof Darrel Francis ☺ Mk CardioFellows Great Again

ProfDFrancis

Somehow I find myself cornered into being a world expert on everything.(My daughter used to believe that. But that was when she was three after a remorseless campaign of me

Conor McCrory

conormccrory

Dr. Kenobi, A+E Consultant.A thread.@MemeRegOnCall @admit_medics @Medic_RussellStarts his shift as he means to go on... by picking up the standby phone. Then immediately looks at the ED tracker. When the

Caio de Assis Moura Tavares

caiodeamtavares

1/11The Lancet just published the SENIOR-NSTEMI trial (https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30930-2/fulltext) with very interesting findings: 2/11Prospective observational data from 5 collaborating Hospitals in

Chandra "Smash The Curve" Duggirala M.D

csentropy

Here is an often overlooked fact about our health care system and how it relates to the Covid Panic News Cycle. A thread 1. Almost all the doctors I spoke

Dr Gaetan Burgio, MD, PhD.

GaetanBurgio

A question I often get. Why Lupus patients that have taken Hydroxychloroquine for years have no side effects whereas severe adverse cardiac side effects are described #COVID19 patients under hydroxychloroquine

Abraar Karan

AbraarKaran

*New @JAMA_current* adding to hospitalized #covid19 outcomes literature1/-Among 5700 patients in NYC2634 met study endpoint of "discharged" or "died"Of those:-14.2% were treated in the ICU-21% died-For the 12% that were

Skyler Lentz

SkylerLentz

Don't miss cardiogenic shock in the ED! High mortality that increases when diagnosis is delayedUse careful exam, labs, ECG and POCUS to dxA few tips from our recent paper Madison

John Bloch MD MPH

doc_bloch

I am working on a teaching case for medical students and I have a genuine question: why do we present “mystery cases” in the order of the H&P even though

Prof Darrel Francis ☺ Mk CardioFellows Great Again

ProfDFrancis

How do ideas mutate into the worst possible version of themselves?The same way viruses evolve. and much faster, because the selection pressure is greater.#FOAMed This one has a three-phase mutation.ORIGIN.

Ahmad Masri

MasriAhmadMD

These are the #HCM sessions and abstracts (original research) I am looking forward to @ #ACC21 - add the ones I missed First - an important analysis from the EXPLORER-HCM