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PGY-4 @DukeKidney via @AHNIMres | @NSMCInternship alum/exec, interested in #POCUS and #MedEd. Palestinian Arsenal fan from Cairo, Egypt
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 #NephTwitter 2/
🎃 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.