Andrés Henao, MD, FIDSA Profile picture
ID physician | @UnivalleCol alumnus | Associate Professor @CUAnschutz | Editor-in-Chief @TAInfDis | Associate Editor @PLOSGPH | Global Health | 🇨🇴🇺🇸
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Aug 28, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
1/ What are the proinflammatory cytokine levels during sepsis? Are they a lot?

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Very proud of this work from @CUAnschutz @DeptVetAffairs

Special kudos to the matchless and brilliant @AmalGharamti for leading this work

sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Image 2/ The pooled estimated mean TNFα concentration in sepsis patients was 58.4 pg/ml, and 5.5 pg/ml in healthy persons.

A TNF-α cutoff level ≥14.7 pg/mL separated sepsis patients from healthy persons with a sensitivity of 82.6%, and a specificity of 91.7%
May 31, 2019 9 tweets 4 min read
1/ Why tuberculosis has a preferential apical localization?
Is it the host? Is it the pathogen?
To answer this question, let’s review some cool stuff
#MedTwitter #IDTwitter #IDMedEd #IDDailyPearl

Follow the thread 2/ Arnold Rich stated: “There is no more puzzling circumstance in the pathogenesis of pulmonary tuberculosis […] than the peculiar fact that in the adult the disease begins almost invariably in the upper portion of the upper lobe“
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6839825