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Wife | 🐶 & 🐈‍⬛ Mom | neurointensivist @EmoryNeuroCrit | social media editor @_jocn | ❤️@neurocritical Webinar Series & POCUS https://t.co/BiIXZvyup7
Mar 9, 2022 19 tweets 12 min read
1/ 🧵Pt p/w headaches and 2 weeks of progressive left sided weakness. No history of immunosuppression. Open image of selected MRI brain w/ and w/o sequences ⬇️

#Medtwitter #neurotwitter #onctwitter #foam #foamncc #neurology #neuroonc Image 2/ Biopsy can't be done for a few days. Would you Rx steroids before the biopsy?
Dec 21, 2021 20 tweets 9 min read
1/ 🧵Ready to play a game #EmoryNCCTweetorials #Neurotwitter #FOAMncc ?

Review these images carefully. Poll in next tweet. 2/ What do all of these diverse #braininjury cases have in common?
Sep 17, 2021 25 tweets 16 min read
1/ 42 yo patient presents with 3 hours of left hemiparesis found to have right M1 thrombus. Platelets are 24,000/uL!

Welcome to a CANNOT MISS #EmoryNCCTweetorials @EmoryNeuroCrit on a rare etiology of #acuteischemicstroke

#Neurotwitter #FOAMncc #stroketwitter 2/ 🚨Goals for the scroll:

✅Discuss a rare cause of acute ischemic stroke
✅ Review thrombectomy safety w thrombocytopenia (tcp)
✅Review dx and pathophys of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP)
✅Review the treatment of TTP