Can heart transplant recipients experience vasovagal syncope?? This came up during my time in the CCU, here's a short 🧵 investigating this question. Special thanks to Alexander Hajduczok, MD 🇺🇦🙏 of Jefferson Cardiology Fellows. Let's first start with how vasovagal syncope normally occurs...

🩺There was no group in which treatment of inpatient hypertension helped. 🚨Inpatient treatment of hypertension = harm. #SHMConverge #UpdateinHospMed2022 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33369614/ PMID: 33369614

1/3 - The Mystery In medical school, I was warned to "beware the patient with unilateral icterus" as this portended something bad. As in this case from NEJM. What can explain this finding? nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.105…

Forever grateful to Houston Methodist IM Residency & the Program Staff for giving me the opportunity to live out my dreams back home in Houston, TX. I will always appreciate the education & mentorship I receive every single day, enabling me to become a better physician, educator, and mentor.

Had the chance to present my research related to SIBO! ACG ACG Charlotte WAO

Lot’s of fun at #ACG2022 this past weekend and huge shoutout to my long list of mentors for helping me put together a couple of presentations and win an award! Bincy Abraham, MD, MS Kerri Glassner Christopher Kim, MD Manuel Andres Garza Su Min Cho Raj Waghela

Thankful for the opportunity to attend #ACG2022 and present our research! Appreciate all the support from my many mentors for making this possible! Bincy Abraham, MD, MS Dr. Mathur Dr. Quigley Dr. Barroso Shaadi Abughazaleh Su Min Cho Manuel Andres Garza Michelle Jones-Pauley @asaleh_7

Great to see such strong representation from our residents, former residents (now GI fellows), and HM GI faculty at #ACG2022 this past weekend in Charlotte, NC! Super proud to see all your hard work on display 🤩👏🏼

Keith Siau Tea has tannins, oxalates, & phytates, which bind iron, decreasing absorption, causing iron deficiency anemia, causing doctors to order colonoscopies to look for bleeds.

2023, the year the #GLP1RA semaglutide can’t lose! #FLOW, the kidney outcomes trial of once-weekly injectable semaglutide, has stopped early for overwhelming efficacy based on interim analysis Massive news, results in Q1 2024 novonordisk.com/content/nncorp…

ATLANTIS: Low-dose amitriptyline is safe, well-tolerated and effective as a second-line treatment for irritable bowel syndrome in primary care PCPs should consider amitriptyline in patients not responding to first line therapy #MedTwitter #GITwitter #IBS thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Thalidomide ⬇️ recurrent bleeding from small intestinal angiodysplasia 🩸 #MedTwitter #GITwitter #GIbleed nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

USNWR rankings 2024 Congratulations and a big thank you to all in GI and GI surgery Houston Methodist on yet another top 10 performance.

ASGE GI Endoscopy first year fellows course with our awesome fellows Raj Waghela Bincy Abraham, MD, MS Eamonn Quigley Houston Methodist IM Residency Houston Methodist MD

ACG 2024 - Outstanding Poster Presenter Award for our poster with the HMH GI/IBD Faculty. Thank you to Malcolm Irani Kerri Glassner Bincy Abraham, MD, MS & Chris Fan for all of your feedback and support!

Proud of our entire Houston Methodist MD #GI team, our trainees ACG #ACG2024. 6 awards, and 32 presentations in total!! Eamonn Quigley Raj Waghela Shayan Amini, MD Kerri Glassner #GITwitter

Full house at 2025 Underwood hands-on course at MITIE at Houston Methodist. Kudos to course director Dr Sunil Dacha and his colleagues from across the TMC.

Underwood Center Houston Methodist MD faculty, fellows and staff excited to promote March as colorectal cancer awareness month.

ACG #DressInBlueDay #coloncancerawarenessmonth #blueforcrc Houston Methodist MD Raj Waghela Apaar Dadlani Eamonn Quigley Rabia Rizwan Start screening for this preventable cancer at age 45!

Excited to share our work on de-escalating patients on advanced combination therapy in IBD: doi.org/10.1093/crocol… published in IBDJournal & CC360 (CC360). Grateful to everyone involved including Bincy Abraham, MD, MS Kerri Glassner Malcolm Irani Raj Waghela! UTSW Internal Medicine Chiefs