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Jul 31, 2019 18 tweets 12 min read
Last week we had our traditional lecture on Dizziness by our amazing PD, Dr @AndrewGutwein!...
As you are probably very aware, this is a very common complain!, and can have many subtleties.

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#JacobiIM #JacobiNoonConference #medtwitter #FOAMed #DDx @CPSolvers @DxRxEdu Dizziness is VERY relative...
Patient can describe it as spinning, lightheaded, "blacking out", but sometimes, it is just "Dizziness".

Newman et al evaluated the overlap of dizziness categories based on symptoms. (May Clin Proceedings, 2007-11-01,Vol 82,1)

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Jun 28, 2019 10 tweets 4 min read
Yesterday we had an amazing noon conference on scleroderma with Dr Bahce! We discussed from pathophysiology to the differential diagnosis and common complications...here are some tips and pearls!
1/n (systemic sclerosis) Image Although there were many reports of patient with symptoms compatible with sclerodermia, the term was coined in the beggining of the 19th century by Fantonetti and Thirial.

However, the skin was though to be the only involved organ, with no relationship with other symptoms.
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