Publications by authors named "Nahom Seyoum"
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- Socioeconomic deprivation negatively affects access to timely surgical care and quality measures for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) among Veterans in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA).
- A study analyzed 9,704 Veterans with stage I NSCLC, revealing that those from areas of high socioeconomic deprivation were less likely to receive essential preoperative evaluations and timely surgery compared to those from less deprived areas.
- Post-surgery, Veterans in high deprivation areas had a higher risk of 30-day hospital readmission and were less likely to meet recommended care quality standards than their counterparts with lower deprivation levels.
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- Most general surgery residency programs do not provide easily accessible parental leave policies on their websites; only 6% of program sites and 52% of GME sites include this information.
- Family Medical Leave Act policies are the most commonly mentioned, followed by maternity, paternity, and adoption policies.
- There are opportunities for improvement in transparency regarding these policies, especially among academic programs and those in the Southeastern US.
Background: Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (sICH) is a major health concern and has high mortality rates up to 52%. Despite a decrease in its incidence, fatality rates remain unchanged; understanding and preventing of factors associated with mortality and treatments for these are needed. Blood pressure variability (BPV) has been shown to be a potential modifiable factor associated with clinical outcomes in patients with traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage and sICH.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Although medical malpractice lawsuits pose a significant burden, there is a paucity of research on physician-specific characteristics influencing lawsuits against surgeons. Our objective was to identify factors associated with general surgeons being named in malpractice cases.
Methods: This was a cross sectional study of Maryland general surgeons, using malpractice data from a publicly accessible judiciary database.
Portal vein recanalization-transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (PVR-TIPS) is a valuable technique in the treatment cirrhosis and portal vein (PV) thrombosis. Only a few studies have reported cases of utilizing the transmesenteric approach in the procedure's initial portal access. Here, we report the successful utilization of a CT-guided percutaneous puncture of the superior mesenteric vein (SMV) for PVR-TIPS in a patient with splenic vein thrombosis.
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