Dr. Shadi Abu Halimah
Vascular Surgery
Charleston, WV
23 years experience male
Locations
Office
Charleston, WV
Address
West Virginia University- Charleston Division, 3110 MacCorkle Avenue SE, Charleston, WV
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Insurances accepted
Aetna Life Insurance Company
CIGNA Health Care
Medicare
Medicaid
Vascular Center of Excellence
Charleston, WV
Charleston Area Medical Center
Charleston, WV
About
Bio
I have great interest in developing new techniques in treating complex vascular disease like aortic pathology/aneurysms/dissection both endovascular and open
SpecialtiesDoctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Vascular Surgery
Licenses
United States: West Virginia
Languages spoken
Arabic
Doctor Q&A
269 Answers
150 Agrees
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Vascular Surgery 23 years experience
Male/atherosclerosis: This depends on the cause and location of periphral arterial disease. Most common seen as atherosclerosis in lower extremities and that is more common... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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50's : There is different causes of pad and onset of symptoms are different. Most common is atherosclerosis and this start early in life but usually start to... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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Ask rehab: The best thing for that is talking to your rehabilitation physician and to previous patients with amputations about there experience, usually rehab fa... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Awake or asleep: Some surgeons will perform carotid surgery under local aneshesia and during clamping the patient can give feed back about decrease blood flow which me... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Occlusion: When an aneurysm gets larger the blood will form layered thrombus or clot inside the aneurysm against the wall , this can cause emboli or clots downst... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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No oxygen: Air embolism will cause occlusion to artries depending on location of the artery. In lungs will cause sudden decrease in oxygenation of blood and can ... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Yes: There are a lot of antibiotics related to different groups or families works on different spectrum of bacteria and also depends on the location of the... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Yes but of course depending on general health status . Also depending on kind of surgery so aortic surgery has higher risk of complications compared t... Read More
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A 46-year-old member asked:
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Typically no: There is no large subcutaneous vein in the palm of the hand so it is very unusual location for varicose veins.
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Sure: Depending on severity and cause of the varicose veins you may develop more swelling and discomfort after long travel . So put on the compression stock... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Vascular Surgery 23 years experience
Avoid risk factors: Avoid sitting or not moving for long time, walking is good , take medicine like Heparin sq , Lovenox (enoxaparin) sq , Fragmin .. All these are effect... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Great option: Yes it is one of the best options to treat deissection initially because it has dual effect , beta blocker to slow down the heart and Alpha blocker to... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Depends: Really depends on location of the dissection and rate of degeneration of the aorta into aneurysm , but most of the time patient can live normal life.
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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ER now: You should go to the emergency roam now . You may be experiencing a clot in your brachial/arm artery
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A 31-year-old female asked:
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Many things: Wide range of causes including gallbladder pain, peptic ulcer, colonic spasms, tumors, nerve compression, hernia, heart problems like angina.. Etc. Yo... Read More
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A 23-year-old male asked:
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Vascular Surgery 23 years experience
Moderation: Yes you can excercise but nothing extreme. Any excercise that can make your blood pressure very high can induce rupture . Also this depends on locatio... Read More
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Yes: As long you started on full anticoagulation like Heparin then there is no reason to stay in bed , on the contrary of old school teaching , walking , a... Read More
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Several reasons: Several factors that involve increase prevalence of atherosclerosis including increase stress, high blood pressure , diabetes, high cholesterol , fast... Read More
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A 28-year-old male asked:
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Blunt or penetrating: Depending on mechanism of injury blunt or penetrating which can end up with small intimal (inner wall) dissection , wall hematoma , contained rupture ... Read More
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A 26-year-old member asked:
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Depends: Depends on location of affected organ like lungs, kidneys, intestines .. Etc
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Your type ?: What is your type ? There is many kinds of vasculitis and symptoms depends on organs in involved with the disease .. We need more information.
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A 21-year-old member asked:
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Yes: Patient with carotid stenosis should be on anti platelet medicine like Aspirin or Plavix , also if tolerated, must be on a statin( cholesterol lowerin... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Depends: Open AAA repair in otherwise healthy young patient will require around one week in the hospital but for endovascular repair the stay is typically 24 h... Read More
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A 25-year-old member asked:
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Possible: The major risk of carotid dissection is to develop stroke. Depending on the size of the stroke some can become fatal.
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A 62-year-old member asked:
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Anticoagulants: Heparin, Lovenox and Coumadin (warfarin) usually for six months or longer if recurrent. In severe cases patient my require thrombolytics to desolve th... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Possible: Causes for non healing ulcer include foreign body in the ulcer, radiation , inflammation , infection , cancer, untreated ischemia , etc. . If the ulce... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Several: Treatment of poor circulation depends on the symptoms and stage of disease. Medically these patients should be on antiplatelets like aspirin, statins ... Read More
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A 35-year-old member asked:
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No cure: Truly there is no cure but we can manage occlusive arterial disease to prevent progression like using anti platelet agents like aspirin, anti choleste... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Off the right heart: It is the main artery coming of the right ventricle/heart. It goes to both lungs carrying blood with low oxygen.
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A 36-year-old female asked:
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Not in chronic: Usually after few weeks of portal vein thrombosis there is nothing to do except taking warfarin . In acute cases within first two weeks a physician ca... Read More
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A 30-year-old member asked:
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Check immediatly: Different causes : like disc prolapse, neuropathy, stroke but in young age you need to be checked for other causes like multiple sclerosis .. See your... Read More
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Carotid surgery: Carotid endarterectomy is well tolerated as long as you don't have severe cardiac or lung disease . If it is done for symptomatic disease then risk of... Read More
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A 50-year-old female asked:
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Vascular Surgery 23 years experience
Usually nothing : Usually this is normal but could be old blockage in the veins
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A 43-year-old member asked:
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Multifactorial: Disease in the media( middle layer) of the artery with accumulation of fat, cholesterol into the wall causing inflammation which become chronic with s... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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Rare: Very unusual although vasculitis can occur at young age and cause symptoms of arterial occlusion.
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A 44-year-old member asked:
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May be: May be but not the best test and will miss some aortic portions.
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Ductus arteriosus : The pulmonary artery is connected to the aorta through ductus arteriosus which most often occludes just after birth
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A 36-year-old member asked:
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Risk factors: True aneurysm are generally idiopathic or has no true risk factor cause relationship but they have risk factors like high blood pressure, high cholest... Read More
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A 49-year-old male asked:
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Vascular Surgery 23 years experience
Anytime: As long as you are on anticoagulation then you will be fine but try to avoid long rides, so stop every 1-2 hours for 5-10 minutes walk. Also make sure... Read More
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Vascular Surgery 23 years experience
See a surgeon: Simply finding a vein(cephalic or basilic) in your arm and forearm with good size , isolate it , disconnect it and suture it to a close by artery do i... Read More
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A 40-year-old member asked:
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Stroke or death : If localized area then patient will have stroke but if it's global and for long time then can cause brain death.
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A 38-year-old member asked:
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Location: Some strokes affecting the frontal lobe can cause that .. Generally big strokes with big motor deficit or speech problem can make the patient also dep... Read More
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Treat the cause: Depend on the cause, pressure ulcer must relief pressure, venous ulcer must treat reflux and sweling and compress the ulcer, arterial or ischemic ulce... Read More
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Vascular Surgery 23 years experience
Possible: Typically u will have pain or stiffness, swelling and sometimes change in color. The leg can feel warm with occasional numbness. There is other causes... Read More
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A 41-year-old member asked:
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Vascular Surgery 23 years experience
2-6 weeks: This really depends on if the patient has stroke or not , if not then couple of weeks will be enough for the patient to go for full activity but avoid... Read More
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A 42-year-old member asked:
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Should not: Doctors should not remove limbs in normal healthy person with no abnormality .. If there is refractory disease like arterial occlusion with no surgica... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Less blood in PA: If the is decrease blood flow into pulmonary artery pa or any of it's branches then there will be decrease pulmonary vascularity. In babies some conge... Read More
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Possibly: Typically they increase the risk of leg clots or DVT which can lead to swelling especially if u r a female smoker above 35 yr old .. Occasionally they... Read More
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A 47-year-old member asked:
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CTA better: Although cta is more accurate but it also depends on image quality done by radiology . If there is two conflicting studies of the carotid artery , the... Read More
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Vascular Surgery 23 years experience
Image/sound: Doppler test depends on particles shift or movement and the result will be different sound intensities, ultrasound is a visual/image test of particles... Read More
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Jul 12, 2012
Intelligent physician with good judgment and knowledge base
Feb 27, 2013
I recommend this physician!
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Mar 30, 2015
Dr. Abu Halimah is an amazing doctor! #nationaldoctorsday2015 #virtualflower1
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This was very helpful. Thanks! I am having upper right quadrant abdominal pain. My CBC and metabolic panel were all within range. An abdominal ultrasound showed no abnormalities of organs. An AAA was ...Read More
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This was very helpful. Thanks! Was told about my sma possibly needing to have a follow-up, but my gastro Dr. told me he didn't believe in this diagnosis.
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Thank you, your answer was very helpful! Am a patient myself. Appreciate your taking time out to answer these questions
Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
University of Jordan Faculty of Medicine, Jordan
Graduated 2000MD
Residency
CHARLESTON AREA MEDICAL CENTER
Residency
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS
Awards
Resident of the year award 2009
Honor list/top students . Medical school 2000
Top ten student in the country/ Jordan national qualifying exam
Affiliations
Vascular center of excellence at Charleston Area Medical Center
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