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#464 - [🫀 From The Heart] - Right Drugs, Wrong Heart - A TTTS Recipient That Fooled Everyone

#464 - [🫀 From The Heart] - Right Drugs, Wrong Heart - A TTTS Recipient That Fooled Everyone6 days ago54 min

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of From the Heart, Dr. Nim Goldshtrom and Dr. Adrianne Bischoff dissect a hemodynamics consult that changes shape twice in 48 hours. A 30-week recipient twin from twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome presents with biventricular dysfunction and suprasystemic pulmonary hypertension, starts on epinephrine and milrinone, and stabilizes. Then overnight, everything falls apart: hypotension, rising lactate, falling urine output. Only on repeat echo does the real diagnos...