MEM Cast

This week we discuss about CADASIL, a hereditary small vessel disease and rare cause of stroke, it's clinical features, pathophysiology, diagnosis and management approach.

Join us on this episode of MEMcast as we discuss approaches to identifying and managing patients with aspergillosis, offering practical insights for healthcare professionals and students.
We explore the different clinical forms from allergic disease to chronic and invasive infection, and highlight the key risk factors that should sharpen your clinical suspicion.

Join Dr Thomas Bond and Dr Daniel Ng as we share the first of our 2 episodes covering VT. Episode one will tell you everything you need to know about how to manage a patient on call when you are handed a "dodgy" ECG that turns out to be VT! Don't miss out on key strategies to handle this on-call emergency.

Ever wondered what do with patient on methotrexate, with and infection, awaiting surgery, with a flare of their arthritis? In this episode Dr Thomas Bond and Dr Harris Fayyaz cover the practical points for managing patients on conventional DMARDs, covering when to stop and when they are safe to continue! 

Dr Rafid Ahmed, consultant in Acute medicine , currently working in University Hospital of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust, is walking us through clinical approach to acute shortness of breath.

Dr Sumeet Singhal , consultant neurologist is discussing about management approach to FND.

Ever wondered why some plaques rupture and others sit there politely not causing an MI? Dr Chris Wall talks to us about atherosclerosis in this weeks episode, describing what makes a plaque "vulnerable", and the role of inflammation in plaque development. Don't miss out on this atherosclerosis rundown.

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Dr Sumeet Singhal, consultant neurologist at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, discussed about Clinical approach to FND . 

This week we take a closer look at Tumour Lysis Syndrome, following the September guideline update from the BSH. Dr Aritri Mandal covers everything you need to know about diagnosing, monitoring and treating this life threatening complication of malignancy!

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Dr Shireen Shaffu covers all aspects of SLE treatment, from induction to maintenance therapy. We cover how to manage patients and pregnancy, as well as side effects of therapeutic drugs. Tune in for a whistlestop tour of all thingse SLE treatment!