Kaustubh Ieetkar @K_Ieetkar

Indian. MBBS,MRCP(UK). Internal Medicine Trainee. Cambridge, England Joined December 2012

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Tony Duffy @Existential_Doc

5 months ago

Cancer cachexia in palliative care A Thread 🧵 The term Cachexia originates from the Greek words Kakos and Hexis and translates to “bad physical state” It is estimated to be the direct cause of death in up to 20% of cancer patients.

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Robert Howard also on BlueSky as @ProfRobHoward @ProfRobHoward

7 months ago

Oh great. What could possibly go wrong?

john williams @wi_john

7 months ago

Oh great. What could possibly go wrong?

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Shematologist, MD @acweyand

12 months ago

This is the story of a girl. Of a family. Of tragedy and a devastating disease. It all starts in the Åland Islands, an autonomous, Swedish speaking region of Finland. 1/

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David Duncker @DavidDuncker

a year ago

New 2024 #ESCGuidelines on #Afib 🆕! Use the CHA2DS2-VA score (without Sc) #ESCCongress @escardio

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Shivani Misra @ShivaniM_KC

a year ago

A reminder - someone with sickle cell disease cannot be diagnosed with diabetes using glycated haemoglobin or HbA1c. 🧵 The ‘A’ in HbA1c denotes HbA and people with sickle cell disease don’t make HbA they only make HbS. Now if you send an HbA1c sample to the lab anyway you…

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Dr Philip Lee @drphiliplee1

2 years ago

10/10 no notes

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Brett Baskovich, MD @drdoubleb

2 years ago

These Captchas are getting out of hand #pathology #pathologists #captcha

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Donald Thomas, MD @lupuscyclopedia

2 years ago

The NEJM finally released the CD-19 CAR-T cell therapy results in 15 autoimmune disease patients (including #SLE and #lupus, #myositis, and #scleroderma) with excellent effectiveness (drug-free remissions) and safety: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

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Zaven Sargsyan @sargsyanz

2 years ago

D-dimer: if you can’t handle me at my mildly positive, you don’t deserve me at my definitely negative

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Neil Stone @DrNeilStone

2 years ago

Measles. Unpleasant illness. Most recover uneventfully. But a small percentage will have catastrophic complications and can die. So why risk it..there's an effective and safe vaccine. Get vaccinated. End.

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Adi @IDdocAdi

2 years ago

ID docs taking history like

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Guilherme Perini, MD @GuiperiniMD

2 years ago

And now, No.1 #PeriniPicks for #ASH23 Again, my colleagues of India showing it is possible to impact the whole world with research done in LMIC countries! ash.confex.com/ash/2023/webpr… Actaly-cell data will be presented, showing good results and a cost of $15,000.

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Nico Gagelmann @NicoGagelmann

2 years ago

A classic, never gets old...

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Soumitra 🌻 সৌমিত্র சௌமித்ரா سومترہ @netshrink

2 years ago

A thread on the generic vs patented medicines debate for those not from a medical background. Hence I am simplifying some concepts. Experts please excuse. Here we go! Medicines are generally discovered/invented by Pharma companies. The company which first discovers/invents...+

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Luke McMenamin @medicluke

2 years ago

I remember some radiologists asking for my GMC number and asking me to type on the request “I take responsibility if contrast causes AKI” as a F2, to get a contrast CT scan done. It’s taken a long time despite the evidence being there for years.

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Shematologist, MD @acweyand

2 years ago

Not sure why they ordered this D-dimer but here it is…

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Gerren Hobby @ghobby

3 years ago

I asked ChatGPT to explain what the kidneys do in the style of Dr Seuss. This response is 🏆🥇

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ranjona banerji 🇮🇳 @ranjona

3 years ago

This is terrifying!!! indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

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Fifty Two @FiftyTwoDotIn

3 years ago

This week's 🧵 WONDER DRUG: This Punjabi microbiologist dedicated his life to studying a compound. It saved millions of lives—including, for a while, his own.