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Good Morning #MedTwitter #neurotwitter #MedEd #Neurotwt #Neuroresidents #NeuroOphthalmology #Neuroimmunology #twittorial. Let's have a quick review on #OpticNeuritis and #NMO - Grab a #coffee and let's Start!
1/ Classic #opticneuritis is characterized by a sub-acute loss of vision in one Eye, with central #scotoma, pain on #eyemovement, positive #RAPD
- Fundus exam is usually normal
- Age range 15-45 years
- Fundus exam is usually normal
- Age range 15-45 years
2/Talking about #MOGAntibodies:
- More frequent in #pediatric population, Associated with #ADEM
- #MOG IgG serum titers depend on disease activity and is mainly from extrathecal origin, enters #CNS from systemic circulation and reaches CSF through passive diffusion or broken #BBB
- More frequent in #pediatric population, Associated with #ADEM
- #MOG IgG serum titers depend on disease activity and is mainly from extrathecal origin, enters #CNS from systemic circulation and reaches CSF through passive diffusion or broken #BBB
1) One of my occupational hats includes critical review of the medical literature for drugs or treatments, sometimes to testify as expert witness. What you are doing by trending #Prednisone to demonize a drug when you have NO medical training is murderous.
2) Life threatening diseases frequently involve using drugs with unwanted side effects. You are the same people that, with no biochemical, pharmacological or medical training are demonizing #opioids and physicians, when the (very) American problem is related to ...
3) ... synthetic opioids available in the black market and supplied by the Transnational Criminal Organization Triad in partnership with the Mexican Cartels. American politicians take their 10%, as always.
I'm going to go outside of my regular comfort zone a bit today, and try out a #tweetorial/#medthread a bit more applicable to #medtwitter in general. So here goes....
A beginner's guide to the use of #PREDNISONE!
#MedEd #FOAMEd #dermtwitter #dermatology PC:@dermnetnz
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A beginner's guide to the use of #PREDNISONE!
#MedEd #FOAMEd #dermtwitter #dermatology PC:@dermnetnz
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Ah, prednisone. One of the most frequently used drugs in our specialty, and in many across the board in medicine. Useful for quick suppression of an overactive immune system, whether that be because of autoimmunity, or acute infection. But how does it work?
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The point is that there are so many potential mechanisms, that it's hard to point at one particular enzyme or pathway to explain all its effects. This paper address many of them, but my main takeaway is that we don't know everything! ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
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