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😱😱😱 Surgeon Removes The Liver Of Patient, Mistaking It For The Spleen, Causing Immediate Death In The Operating Room.

#MedSpout #SurgSpout

How can one possibly confuse the liver with the spleen? Opposite sides, different colors. Malicious intent?

https://zarzaurlaw.com/surgeon-removes-the-liver

Just published #Nature
How #Fibrin drives brain inflammation in acute and #LongCovid and that a monoclonal antibody to fibrin protects against microglial activation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07873-4
#MedSpout

#MECFS

Artificial intelligence detects breast cancer 5 years before it develops

https://www.breastcancer.org/screening-testing/artificial-intelligence 🔗

#MedEd #MedSpout #SCIENCE #Technology #Oncology #Cancer #Diagnosis #AI

⚠️ Periodic Paralysis

https://periodicparalysis.org

"Primary Periodic Paralysis is a group of disorders whereby patients become temporarily paralyzed due to triggers such as rest after exercise or certain foods."

Incase anyone is experiencing this but doesn't know what it is...

#MedSpout

🚨 Whole 🧬 sequencing finds genetically identical #Covid19 infected 2 ppl admitted to a 🏥 rm 1h 43 mins & 4h 45 mins after discharge of an asymptomatic pt w/ #COVID19. 🦠 may be in air & capable of infecting >4h in 🏥. #MedSpout

https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(24)00162-7/abstract

Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD:

JESSICA PETTWAY died of cervical cancer at age 36. She had 3 hospitalizations in 7 mos requiring 18 blood transfusions before anyone did a pelvic exam. Our tendency to dismiss women’s symptoms, especially if the women are Black or other WoC, literally kills.

#MedSpout 😥

🚨 #MedSpout
New Data Shows Noninvasive Ear-Clip Therapy Treats Postural Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) - lowers HR spikes by 15 points - which would help many am sure.

#POTS

#MECFS

#LongCovid

https://www.hrsonline.org/news/press-releases-statements/earclip-therapy-pots

The 2nd half of this video covers how the nervous system impacts Cancers - it's a MUST WATCH for anyone interested in understanding that aspect better...

#MedSpout
#Cancer #NeuroOncology
#MECFS #LongCovid #Covid # InfectiousDiseases
#Virology

Below is our Table summarizing candidate treatment options for different components of #LongCovid
If you have any access issues, you can use this link
🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2.epdf?

#MedSpout
#LongCovid

Tatiana Prowell, MD
As a doctor, I have to agree: this is madness. There are no approved treatments for #LongCovid. Zero. You can’t put that chronic illness genie back in the bottle, folks.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. There is no cure. #MedSpout #Covid19

#MedSpout - any #Virologists , #Immunologists or those from other specialties want to weigh in!?

🩺👩🏻‍⚕️🔬🥼

Biologist Arijit Chakravarty
If you read one thread today, make it this one. When a full professor of virology with an h-index of 32 lets their snark slip the leash on media narratives about Covid
#MedSpout
#Virology
#InfectiousDisease

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1742725334439453028.html