Nephrologist @AHNtoday, via @DukeKidney and @AHNIMres | Clinician educator with a focus on #POCUS
Sep 3, 2021 • 21 tweets • 8 min read
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👻 AKI in patients with a kidney transplant can sometimes be “SCARI”
🧵Let’s talk about an approach I recently learned to some common causes of late (>3 months) allograft dysfunction to overcome the fear together #Tweetorial#NephTwitter2/ 🎃 Allograft dysfunction is defined by a rise in serum Cr of approximately 25%
🎃 It is often asymptomatic, identified on routine blood work
🎃 It can also present with nonspecific symptoms such as nausea, vomiting or diarrhea.
