Reading Time: 4 minutes Portal vein pulsatility index may be a good marker to distinguish hypervolemic and hypovolemic hyponatremia when the physical examination is inconclusive.
Nephrology
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Current practice guidelines and recent reviews seem too keen on recommending albumin infusion as a “volume expander” in patients with cirrhosis and AKI.
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Pre-brief 58 y/o male with a history of OSA, COPD, CKD III, HTN, presents with RUQ abdominal pain x…
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Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pre-brief This interesting (and not so straightforward) case of hypernatremia is a great review of both physiology and clinical…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Pre-brief Strategies of diuresis are not created equal. This post will discuss different ways to diurese patients depending on the…
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Reading Time: 2 minutes The Pre-brief Doppler ultrasound can be used to assess arterial and venous blood flow velocity within the inter-lobar vessels of…