#Vasculitis

Emily Deans MD 👻

evolutionarypsy

Argh I am making myself nuts. One of the kids has some sort of vasculitis on her toes and the other one has what looked to me like sweat contact

Inspired by recent posts from @AaronGoodman33 , here is my attempt to review briefly the interplay between Hematology and Autoimmune phenomena.It's magic when that fusion occurs.Any comments & suggestions appreciated.#MedTwitter

Severe #COVID19 induces an endotheliitis: a pseudo-vasculitis phenotype with a viral renal-lung syndrome and ARDS. Nephrologists report AKI without shock/renal hypoperfusion. Microvascular endotheliitis also explains cardiac manifestations & thro

Sanjay Mukhopadhyay

O Brave and Wise, teach me how to correlate these lung biopsy findings with clinical findings. Germinal center (pattern?) + vasculitis (uh...pattern?) + NSIP (pattern!) = ? Clinical correlation recommended?

Love Your Lungs

It’s the start of another week, and time for #MCQMonday! Are you ready...? #RespEd Here’s this week’s #MCQMonday info #SCE #RespEd 1/n Which one of the following is the single

Tonight I was supposed to participate in a "Careers in Medicine" panel telling medical students why rheumatology is the absolute best. That panel was cancelled due to COVID-19, so instead

Dr. Barbara Seiders

I'm starting to get the idea that magnesium is a damn wonder drug. I've learned that Mg deficiency can contribute to high blood pressure; cardiac arrhythmia, including prolonged QT syndrome;

The Medical SHO

If Snape was your consultant: another Harry Potter thread Arrives for ward round When he asks for causes of pneumonia and you reply ‘bacteria and viruses’ When you ask if

Zavén Sargsyan

Eosinophils matter:Inspired by yesterday’s @CPSolvers case + last week’s NEJM case, reprising this thread with 5 more real case examples of this take-home point: In acute presentations, eosinophilia is often

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

In some children, #COVID19 takes the form of #KawasakiDisease-like symptoms. So what exactly is #KawasakiDisease? It's an illness caused by inflammation of the blood vessels in children < 5 yrs

"These complications, which at times are the only features of #COVID19 clinical presentation, have occurred even in cases with mild symptoms and in people who did not experience any symptoms"

Robin Goodfellow

Concerned over HCQ side effects?Febrile Seizure. 1/ Hypersensitivity to EggsIndividuals with a history of anaphylactic, or other immediate reactions (e.g., hives, swelling of the mouth/throat, difficulty breathing, hypotension, or shock)

1/Okay #medtwitter and #dermtwitter, you knew it was only a matter of time, didn’t you?! Let’s do this #COVID19 themed #medthread:#COVID TOES, a #TWEETORIAL!#MedEd #FOAMEd #dermatology #dermatologia @AADskin @AADMember @Meddermsoc

Emily Deans MD 👻

evolutionarypsy

Really interesting (follows up on the case of two sets of brothers with severe COVID-19)https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/09/hidden-immune-weakness-found-14-gravely-ill-covid-19-patients We produce interferons in response to infections.

🇧🇷🇧🇷soyDrGarcialihno

Hablemos del coronavirus y una teoría que está tomando fuerza con los datos recolectados de los pacientes de Nueva York y que le daría un vuelco total a la investigación

Random learning 101 (a thread) Day 1Eisenmenger syndromeIncreased pressure of blood flow to the lungs is too much that it reverses the direction of blood flow to the shunt.Blood flow