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Internal Medicine specialist working in SICU 👾 🇮🇹. Interested in #POCUS, #CriticalCare and anything with caffeine ☕. Supporting #FOAMed 🤓.
Jun 4, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
13y male. Headache, severe cyanosis. SpO2 ~80% (pulse oximetry). No response to 100% FiO2. Normal Lung/Heart US.
Here the arterial blood gas. Here the BGA: PO2 > 100mmHg, normal SaO2.
Severely abnormal MetHb was detected (> 40%).
Mar 11, 2021 6 tweets 6 min read
Parenchymal changes caused by liver hemodynamic alterations (pseudotumor).

Small areas of liver tissue are known to be supplied by a "third inflow" venous system separate from the usual dual blood supply of the portal vein and hepatic artery. This is a normal variant and it is composed of aberrant veins or parts of normal veins that directly enter the liver independently of the portal venous system; such veins communicate with intrahepatic portal branches to various degrees.
Feb 26, 2021 6 tweets 5 min read
Point-of-Care Ultrasound Applications in the Outpatient Clinic: A rapid diagnosis of Congestive hepatopathy in an ederly man, applying VExUS at the bedside.
His medical history was remarkable for (referred) Afib.
@NephroP @ButterflyNetInc @hepocus @HunPocus @Pocus101 @pocusmeded 1) IVC is clearly dilated with absence of inspiratory collapse.
Feb 25, 2021 5 tweets 4 min read
A case of EBV Acute Hepatitis in adulthood.

There are no significant changes in liver echo-texture in acute viral hepatitis.
However, enlarged perihepatic lymph nodes are a fairly constant feature.

@hepocus @Pocus101 @pocusmeded @thepocusatlas @NephroP @drmarcogarrone Doppler techniques can be used to
reveal an unspecific hyperdynamic state in hepatic vessels with a higher diastolic arterial
blood flow when compared with healthy individuals.