These medtweetorials discusses the history behind a particular disease or treatment and can be found on twitter directly by clicking here, #HistMed:
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Author: @arte_medicina
Type: #MedEd #Pathophysiology #HistMed
Specialty: #Neurology #Neuro
Topics: #SirCharlesBell #Opisthotonos #Tetanus #ClostriudiumTetani
El opistótonos es un signo clínico clásico de la medicina típicamente asociado al tétanos, pero puede ser causado por una gran variedad de patologías.
Hablemos del opistótonos!
Abro Hilo 🧵🧵
*Pintura por Sir Charles Bell (más adelante hablaremos de él)
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Author: @DrGPrakash
Type: #HistMed
Specialty: #HemeOnc #Oncology
Topics: #HodgkinLymphoma #Lymphoma #ThomasHodgkin
(1/n)For non-medical twitter community, introducing Dr Thomas Hodgkin. He was a British physician/pathologist who gave initial description of a lymphoma way back in 1832. To honor him, the disease was called as Hodgkin lymphoma. #LymphomaAwarenessMonth
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Author: @amyaimei
Type: #MedEd #HistMed
Specialty: #IM #InternalMedicine #Cardiology #Nephrology
Topics: #HTNsyndromes #Hypertension #Eponym
Which is your favorite hypertension syndrome #eponym?
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Author: @EricLawson90
Type: #HistMed #Pathophysiology
Specialty: #Neurology #Neuro
Topics: #FoixAlajouanineSyndrome #CongestiveMyelopathy #SpinalAVM
#Tweetorial! Join me on a saga through history and the fields of #Neurology #Neurosurgery and #Pathology! This was prompted by Neuropathology rounds today with @StewartGNeill
"Foix-Alajouanine Syndrome"
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Author: @TxID_Edu
Type: #MedEd #HistMed
Specialty: #ID #InfectiousDisesae
Topics: #Coccidioidomycosis #Fluconazole #Cocci #EndemicMycosis
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Growing up in Tucson and going to med school @UAZMedTucson, I thought I knew a lot about #coccidioidomycosis. Definitely not!
Here we discuss history, epidemiology, ecology, some cool facts about #Cocci, and reasons why #fluconazole may not be the best drug for Cocci.
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Author: @TylerLarsenMD
Type: #HistMed #MedEd
Specialty: #EM #EmergencyMedicine
Topics: #DecompressionSickness #TheBends #CaissonDisease
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Inpatient 3/16:
Today I learned an interesting #histmed fact:
The original name for decompression sickness (aka "the bends") was caisson disease.