Welcome to #MedTweetorials
A #MedTwitter Project
A place to go to find collections of #MedEd #Tweetorials (aka MedTweetorials)
A place to go to find collections of #MedEd #Tweetorials (aka MedTweetorials)
This list includes authors includes previously featured medical educators from around the globe who have take to twitter and consistently created multiple #MedTweetorials
How does one create a Tweetorial?
Check out this 3 part series on identifying a topic, drafting/posting, and useful tools.
Search the archives for some great reviews and interesting teaching topics on COVID-19
According to an editorial in the BMJ: @Medtweetorials is a recommended follow for distance learning.
Medical Educators who envision a place to streamline the search-ability of #MedTweetorials so you can find them all in one place.
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @tony_breu
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Hematology #Heme #IM #InternalMedicine
Topics: #IronDeficiency #Iron #Fatigue #Hemoglobin #Mitochondria
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🤔Why does iron deficiency cause fatigue, even in the absence of anemia?
I have often equated iron with hemoglobin and oxygen-carrying capacity.
But there is so much more to it!
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @AvrahamCooperMD
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Allergy #Immunology #InfectiousDisease
Topics: #AlphaGal #MeatAllergy #TickBites #Ticks #LoneStarTick
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Ever wonder why tick bites can lead to a red meat allergy, including even anaphylaxis?
The answer requires us to examine sugars, tick saliva, and an anti-cancer drug.
#medtwitter #tweetorial
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @rbarbosa91
Type: #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Surgery #Plastics
Topics: #Scalpel #Incisions #ScapelBlades
Today's 🧵continues our exploration of scalpel blades with an opinion about a simple and common surgical maneuver.
Very often, you have a small skin incision and you need to make it a little bit longer. Yet even that simple move often goes wrong.
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @DrStevenTChen
Type: #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Dermatology #Derm
Topics: #Arsenic #ArsenicPoisoning #ArsenicToxicity
A patient comes in for these skin findings. He says he’s getting darker everywhere. He’s frustrated because he moved to the countryside a few years ago to “get away from the stress of the city,” & now keeps getting headaches!
Diagnosis?
#dermtwitter #medtwitter #meded #FOAMed
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @teachplaygrub
Type: #Physiology #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Neuro #Neurology #Neurosurgery #Radiology #Rads
Topics: #MRI #T1 #T2
1/Do radiologists sound like they are speaking a different language when they talk about MRI? T1 shortening what?T2 prolongation who?
Here’s a translation w/a #tweetorial introduction to MRI
#medtwitter #FOAMed #FOAMrad #medstudent #neurorad #radres @medtweetorials #neurosurgery
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @inglisjosh
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #IM #InternalMedicine
Topics: #Hypertension
#BloodPressure #BP
You’re an intern called to review a patient with an isolated BP of 170/100.
They're admitted with community-acquired pneumonia.
Would you prescribe an antihypertensive? Open this thread and I’ll share my approach.
#HighValueCare #ChoosingWisely
#MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @sriramsunilk
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #IM #InternalMedicine #CardioTwitter #Cardiology
Topics: #HFrEF #HFimpEF #CHF #HeartFailure #HeartFailurewithImprovedEF
A patient with heart failure that you have been following for the last five years no longer has a low EF. What changed ? What medications do you add/stop ?
A #MedTwitter #Tweetorial on HFimpEF (HF with improved EF).
First let’s talk the nuances of calculating EF. 🧮
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @tony_breu
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #IM #InternalMedicine #Hematology #Oncology #HemeOnc
Topics: #MultipleMyeloma #MM #BoneMorphogenicProtein2 #Hepcidin #Anemia #AnemiaofChronicDisease #IL6
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🤔Why does multiple myeloma cause anemia and not pancytopenia?
If the issue is infiltration of the bone marrow with plasma cells, wouldn't all cell lines be low?
Let's have a look.
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @teachplaygrub
Type: #Physiology
Specialty: #Neuro #Neurology #Neurosurgery
Topics: #CervicalRadiculopathy #Radiculopathy
1/Understanding cervical radiculopathy is a pain in the neck! But knowing the distributions can help your search
A 🧵to help you remember cervical radicular pain distributions #medstudenttwitter #medtwitter #radres #FOAMed #FOAMrad #neurorad #Meded #backpain #spine #Neurosurgery
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @SatyaPatelMD
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Hospitalist #HospitalMedicine #InternalMedicine
Topics: #TipsForAttendings #PatientCare #HospitalistAttending
1/15 Some reflections on care for hospitalized patients after 5 years (🙀) of being a hospitalist attending #MedTwitter
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @teachplaygrub
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Radiology #Neurology
Topics: #CT #HeadCT #BrainCT #NeuroRad
1/Radiologist not answering the phone?Just want a quick read on that stat head CT?
Here's a little help on how to do it yourself w/a #tweetorial on how to read a head CT!
#medtwitter #FOAMed #FOAMrad #medstudenttwitter #medstudent #neurorad #radres @medtweetorials #neurosurgery
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @nickmmark
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Cardiology #CardioTwitter #Cards #EmergencyMedicine
Topics: #SuddenCardiacDeath #SCD
There are ~350,000 sudden cardiac deaths (SCD) each year in the US (almost 1000 per day).
Most SCD occurs in older people with known coronary disease, but, sadly a minority of sudden deaths occur in the young.
Roughly 1500 people under 25 die of SCD each year in the US.
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @OligoclonalBand
Type: #HistMed
Specialty: #Neurology #NeuroTwitter
Topics: #EEG #HansBerger #Electroencephalogram
One of my favorite #histmed stories is the discovery of EEG by Hans Berger in the 1920s. #NeuroTwitter
At age 19, Berger (1873-1940) fell off a horse. On the same day, his sister, miles away, sent a telegraph to ask if he was doing ok. 1/10
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author:@rbarbosa91
Type: #HistMed
Specialty: #Surgery
Topics: #PooleSuctionTip #PooleSuction
Short 🧵regarding the Poole suction tip: what it's for, why you may not fully understand how it works, and (of course) a little of its history...
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author:@inglisjosh
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #InternalMedicine #CriticalCare #PalliativeCare
Topics: #Breathlessness #SOB #Hypoxia
76M with end-stage COPD presents with breathlessness and severe hypoxia. There is no reversible cause on workup.
Would you use high flow nasal oxygen for symptomatic relief?
Open this thread and I’ll share my approach.
#MedEd @MedTweetorials
#MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author:@ASanchez_PS
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #AllergyandImmunology #Allergy #Immunology
Topics: #Tryptase #SerumTryptase #Anaphylaxis #Angioedema
💥 Approach to Elevated Tryptase 💥
A patient without a history suspicious for anaphylaxis or angioedema presents with an elevated serum tryptase.
How do we interpret this uncommonly sent lab test?
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author:@rkchoi
Type: #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Neuro #NeuroTwitter #Neurology #Neursurgery
Topics: #SpotSign #IntracranialHemorrhage #ICH
Oh no! My patient with #ich has a #spotsign! Some thoughts and more ❓in the form of a 🧵 #tweetorial for #neurotwitter
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author:@rbarbosa91
Type: #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Surgery
Topics: #NeedleDriver #TungstonCarbide #GoldHandles
Short 🧵regarding what it means when a needle driver has a gold handle.
The gold handles are not just cosmetic: the needle drivers actually *are* better.
To understand this, we have to know what is meant by the 'jaws' of the needle driver.
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @bobvarkey
Type: #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Neuro #Neurology
Topics: #PhysicalExam #ScapularWinging #TrapeziusPalsy
Tweetorial. 1/🧵. Scapular winging.
A young man with shoulder pain after a road traffic accident. His back looks like this
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @MedCrisis
Type: #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Cardiology #Cards #Cardiotwitter
Topics: #Takotsubo #TakotsuboCardiomyopathy #ECHO
Talking with @reepRN and @nsivcd about #Takotsubo cardiomyopathy made me go hunting for an old gif. Clearing out my hard drive so here is an old school gif firesale. Everything must go!
#CardioEd
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @teachplaygrub
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Radiology #Rads #OMFS #ENT
Topics: #MandibularFracture
1/Mike Tyson once said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched.”
In honor of all the great hooks and crosses—here is a #tweetorial about mandibular fxs! #FOAMed #medtwitter #Meded #neurorad #HNrad #FOAMrad #Medstudenttwitter @medtweetorials
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @Neera_Ch
Type: #GraphicMed #MedEd
Specialty: #Radiology #Rads
Topics: #CXR #CXRInterpretation #ChestXrayInterpretation
Was helping junior med students with CXR interpretation in their preparation for osces & decided to create a 🧵
Follow along for steps in interpreting CXRs 👇
#MedTwitter
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @JayKinariwala
Type: #Physiology
Specialty: #Radiology #Rads
Topics: #MRS #MRI #MRSpectroscopy
Ever wondered how MR Spectroscopy (MRS) is acquired & how to interpret it? Have you ever come across funky looking zigzag graph with MRI & scratched your head?
If interested in learning BASICS of MRS, follow this 🧵
MRS for non-radiologists
#EmoryNCCTweetorials @MedTweetorials
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @ASanchez_PS
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Oncology #HemeOnc
Topics: #Lymphoma #Leukemia #HodgkinsLymphoma #NonHodgkinsLymphoma
Framing lymphomas for clinical reasoning: a Herculean task given long list of diseases in our world of molecular biology.
Here's my first attempt at a summary:
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @rob_buttner
Type: #Physiology
Specialty: #Cardiology #Cards #EmergencyMedicine #EM
Topics: #VT #SVTAberrancy #VentricularTachycardia #ECG #EKG
‘VT’ versus ‘SVT with aberrancy’.
The long list of VT "suggestive" ECG features is difficult to recall and apply in real time.
How can we simplify things?
Here is my ABCDE approach – five simple Qs to ask:
🧵👇
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @DrAdamBitterman
Type: #Physiology
Specialty: #Orthopedics #Ortho
Topics: #Achilles #AchillesTendon #AchillesTendonRupture
Let's take a ride on the #orthotwitter train and talk about the ACHILLES TENDON!
A 🧵*....
*This thread includes slides that I created with appropriate references when needed.
@AOFAS @AJSM_SportsMed @AAOS1 @NorthwellHealth @ZuckerSoM #medtwitter #MedEd
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @RGottliebSmith
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #InfectiousDisease #ID
Topics: #TickBorneDiseases #Ticks #Lyme #Babesiosis #Erlichiosis #Tularemia #RockyMountainSpottedFever #Anaplasmosis #RMSF
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The only good thing to come of finding this on my leg last week: I learned enough to write a #tweetorial about it
A 🧵/twitter PSA about what to do if a tick comes for you – & what neuro presentations you can see w/ tick-borne illnesses
#MedTwitter #NeuroTwitter #IDTwitter
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @DrStevenTChen
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Derm #Dermatology #InfectiousDisease
Topics: #MonkeyPox
A brief thread on the #dermatologic exam for #monkeypox!
Caveat: I myself have not seen a MPX patient, but am piecing information together for my #dermtwitter and #medtwitter colleagues!
#MedEd #FOAMEd #tweetorial
PC:https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/05/18/927043767/rare-monkeypox-outbreak-in-u-k-and-europe-what-is-it-and-should-we-worry
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @JimmySuhMD
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Neuro #NeuroSurgery
Topics: #TransCranialDoppler #TCD #SAH #SubarachnoidHemorrhage
1/ Everyone has heard about subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) patients getting CT/CTA, angiogram, and EEG, but what about transcranial dopplers (TCD)?
Here's an #EmoryNCCTweetorials about how TCDs saved the day!
#NeuroTwitter #ultrasound #MedTwitter #FOAMed @MedTweetorials
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @sriramsunik
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #InternalMedicine #Rheumatology #Hematology
Topics: #ESR #CRP #EryrthocyteSedimentationRate
#CReactiveProtein
ESR-CRP discordance,a #MedTwitter #tweetorial
First off, let’s talk about ESR physiology.
ESR is the rate at which RBCs settle in plasma of an anti coagulated blood sample.
(-) charged RBCs repel each other thus ⬇️ ESR.
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MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @rbganatra
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #InternalMedicine #Radiology
Topics: #Pneumonia #DiagnosticReasoning #CXR #PreTestProbability #DiseasePrevalence
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You suspect pneumonia, but the CXR shows no opacities.
Q: When should you obtain a chest CT?
Pick your answer, then read on for a short explanation
(PTP = pretest probability)
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @inglisjosh
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #InternalMedicine #HospitalMedicine #Cardiology #CardioTwitter
Topics: #HeartFailure #FluidBalance #Catheter #ChoosingWisely
You see a patient on the ward with an exacerbation of heart failure.
The team has inserted a urinary catheter for fluid monitoring. What would you do?
Open this thread and I'll share my approach.
#MedEd #Tweetorials
@MedTweetorials @SocietyHospMed
@tony_breu @AndreMansoor
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @tony_breu
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Cardiology #CardioTwitter
Topics: #AMI #MI #STEMI #Diaphoresis #MyocardialInfarction
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🤔 Why do patients with acute myocardial infarction often present with diaphoresis (sweating)?
And, is there any significance when this symptom is present?
🎟️Let's have a look.
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @cardiomet_CE
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Cardiology #CardioTwitter
Topics: #CHF #HeartFailure #Diabetes #Type2DM #HFrEF #HF #HFpEF
1) Welcome to a new #accredited #tweetorial, Prevention and Management of Heart Failure in T2 Diabetes: The Diabetologist’s Perspective! Our expert author is Melanie J Davies CBE FMedSci @profmjdavies, Prof of Diabetes Medicine, U Leicester, Leicester Diabetes Unit @LDC_Tweets
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @inglisjosh
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Pulmonology #Pulm #InternalMedicine #IM
Topics: #Clubbing #Fingernails #LovibondAngle #LungFibrosis #SchamrothSign
A patient presents with shortness of breath. You're asked to examine their respiratory system.
Looking at their hands you notice something different about their fingernails.
What would you thinking?
#MedEd #Tweetorials
@MedTweetorials
@AndreMansoor @PeteSullivanPDx
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @teachplaygrub
Type: #Physiology
Specialty: #ENT #OMFS
Topics: #LeFortFracture #LeFort
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My fellows complained they hate memorizing classifications, like LeFort. I thought, “There must be a better way—maybe understanding instead of memorizing.”
A #tweetorial about understanding the LeFort classification. #FOAMed #medtwitter #Medstudenttwitter @medtweetorials
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @caseyalbin
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Neurology #Neurosurgery
Topics: #ICH #ICHScore #IntracranialHemorrhage #Prognosis
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Awhile ago, on a triage call: “I’ve got a guy here, pretty young, came in looking terrible. GCS 4, we intubated him. Scan shows a big bleed. ICH score 4. Not sure much you’ll be able to do, but need to transfer him.”
A #tweetorial about the ICH score. @medtweetorials
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @ClementLeeMD
Type: #MedEd
Specialty:
Topics: #ClinicalPearl #DiagnosticCriteria
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What is a “clinical pearl” exactly? Diagnostic criteria and framework, a thread 🧵:
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @JenniferSpicer4
Type: #MedEd
Specialty:
Topics: #ClinicalReasoning #DiagnosticReasoning #ManagementReasoning #TeachingDiagnosticReasoning
1/During case conference (& on rounds), we often see master clinicians come up w/ brilliant diagnoses before the HPI is even finished.
But how did they get there?
And how can you teach yourself & others those skills?
This week: how to teach diagnostic reasoning more explicitly
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @AnandJag1
Type: #MedEd
Specialty:
Topics: #ClinicalReasoning #TeachingClinicalReasoning
#Medtwitter, last week I posted about a talk I gave on teaching #clinicalreasoning
As promised, the accompanying #tweetorial
Come explore with me!
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https://twitter.com/AnandJag1/status/1519499322236178433?s=20&t=XFdniGzBgA8tQ3tB4LcW6g
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @captainchloride
Type: #Pathophsiology
Specialty: #Nephrology #Neph #Cardiology
Topics: #Loops #LoopDiuretics #Diuresis #Albumin
Should you give albumin with loop diuretics to augment diuresis?
I've been asked this three different times today so a quick🧵of my thoughts
#nephtwitter #MedTwitter @MedTweetorials
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @neudrawlogy
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #Neuro #Neurology #Peds #Pediatrics
Topics: #Migraines #Migraine #Headache
#NeudrawlogyMigraineEdition, part 6! 🤕🧠
Did you know that migraine has different presentations in children 🍭 compared to adults? 🧵 (1/12)
#NeuroTwitterNetwork #NeuroTwitter #FOAMed #MedEd #MedTweetorial
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @ChrisDJacksonMD
Type: #MedEd
Specialty:
Topics: #ClinicalPearls #EvidencedBasedMedicine @MedEdTwagTeam
1/ Happy Tweetorial Tuesday from @ChrisDJacksonMD!
Clinical pearls? Evidence based medicine? Are we trying to mix oil and water?
Don't worry, your #MedEdTwagTeam crew is here to help with this week's thread!
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @nefron1310
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Nephrology #Neph #Urology
Topics: #Chyluria #Chyle #Filariasis #WuchereriaBancrofti #Lymphatics #NephroticSyndrome
1/ Hello #Medtwitter #NephTwitter.
Different urine colors and the pathology it signifies is amazing!
Milky white urine is one such color we dread. What does it signify? Lets read on🧵
#ASPNFOAMgroup @ASPNeph #ASPNeph #pedneph #chyluria
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @jbcarmody
Type: #MedEd
Specialty:
Topics: #ResidencyPositions #Residency #Match #TheMatch #ResidencyMatch #GME #GraduateMedicalEducation #GMEGrowth
Hang around #MedTwitter for a while, and you’ll find someone claiming that there aren’t enough residency positions for U.S. medical students, or that residency positions aren’t growing at the same rate as medical school graduates.
Trouble is, neither is true.
(a 🧵)
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @mendesthiagob
Type: #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Endocrinology #Endo
Topics: #B12 #VitaminB12 #Metformin #B12Deficiency
🤔 Does metformin cause vitB12 deficiency?
❗️Metformin is the most prescribed drug for type 2 diabetes. Should you monitor vit B12 in pts taking it?
Follow the🧵
#MedTwitter #tweetorial #Endotip
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @RGottliebSmith
Type: #Physiology
Specialty: #Neurology #Neuro
Topics: #MotionSickness #Migraine #Serotonin #Tryptophan #VestibularSystem
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What’s going on in the 🧠 that causes motion sickness – and what’s the link with #migraine?
A #tweetorial about motion sickness, the importance of matching, and why serotonin matters
#MedTwitter #NeuroTwitter
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @inglisjosh
Type: #MedEd
Specialty: #InternalMedicine #Hematology
Topics: #Hemaglobin #Polycythaemia #PRV
60M has an incidental finding of a raised haemaglobin. How would you investigate?
Open this thread and I'll share my approach.
@MedTweetorials
#MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter
#MedEd #Tweetorial
@CPSolvers @Grepmeded
@ManualOMedicine @AnandJag1
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @AndreMansoor
Type: #Case
Specialty: #InternalMedicine #IM
Topics: #Diarrhea #TricuspidRegurgitation #SecretoryDiarrhea #Carcinoid #PhysicalExam
MedTweetorial: #Tweetorial
Author: @ASanchez_PS
Type: #GraphicMed
Specialty: #Pulmonology #Pulm
Topics: #InterstitialLungDisease #ILD
ILD clues for the internist: here's a 🧵with some quick hits!
Framework by @DrEricStrong:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqGT7IgUHU8
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