2022
Impact of Frailty on Morbidity and Mortality in Adult Patients Undergoing Surgical Evacuation of Acute Traumatic Subdural Hematoma
Elsamadicy AA, Sandhu MRS, Freedman IG, Koo AB, Reeves BC, Yu J, Hengartner A, Havlik J, Hong CS, Rutherford HJV, Kim JA, Gerrard J, Gilmore EJ, Omay SB. Impact of Frailty on Morbidity and Mortality in Adult Patients Undergoing Surgical Evacuation of Acute Traumatic Subdural Hematoma. World Neurosurgery 2022, 162: e251-e263. PMID: 35276399, DOI: 10.1016/j.wneu.2022.02.122.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute traumatic subdural hematomaTraumatic subdural hematomaHospital mortalityNonroutine dischargeSubdural hematomaExtended LOSIndependent predictorsAdult patientsBaseline frailtyMultivariate logistic regression analysisExtended hospital lengthImpact of frailtyRetrospective cohort studyNational Trauma DatabaseLogistic regression analysisRegression analysisMultivariate regression analysisHealth care expendituresFrail patientsHospital lengthCohort studySurgical evacuationFrailty indexTrauma databasePatients
2020
Association of race and ethnicity to incident epilepsy, or epileptogenesis, after subdural hematoma.
Brown SC, King ZA, Kuohn L, Kamel H, Gilmore EJ, Frontera JA, Murthy S, Kim JA, Omay SB, Falcone GJ, Sheth KN. Association of race and ethnicity to incident epilepsy, or epileptogenesis, after subdural hematoma. Neurology 2020, 95: e2890-e2899. PMID: 32907969, PMCID: PMC7734738, DOI: 10.1212/wnl.0000000000010742.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSubdural hematomaEmergency departmentMultivariable Cox regressionRetrospective cohort studyMedical risk factorsDevelopment of epilepsyNontraumatic subdural hematomaAssociation of raceDiagnosis of epilepsyCohort studyPrimary outcomeRenal diseaseStatus epilepticusWhite patientsBlack patientsHospital revisitsCox regressionBlack raceDiagnosis codesRisk factorsClaims dataInjury severityEpilepsyDrug useSurvival analysis
2018
Epileptiform activity in traumatic brain injury predicts post‐traumatic epilepsy
Kim JA, Boyle EJ, Wu AC, Cole AJ, Staley KJ, Zafar S, Cash SS, Westover MB. Epileptiform activity in traumatic brain injury predicts post‐traumatic epilepsy. Annals Of Neurology 2018, 83: 858-862. PMID: 29537656, PMCID: PMC5912971, DOI: 10.1002/ana.25211.Peer-Reviewed Original Research