Saif-Eddin Malhas, MD

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Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine

Saif-Eddin Malhas, MD

Pulm/CCM PGY4

Personal Statement:

What are your hobbies and favorite activities outside of medicine?

  • Table tennis, Soccer, and Video games.

What made you decide to rank UT Health San Antonio?

  • The program offers great and diverse training that covers all fields of Pulm/Crit, especially in POCUS and Pulm HTN which, was the main criterion for me to rank programs, but my decision to rank UT #1 was finalized after my interview, which showed a great family like atmosphere among current fellows, attendings and program leadership.

Hometown:

  • Nablus, Palestine

Education

Residency: The University of Toledo. Toledo, Ohio.
Medical School: An-Najah National University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Palestine.

Research

What are your clinical interests?

  • POCUS, Pulmonary Hypertension, right heart catheterization, TEE.

Awards & Accomplishments

  • 2022 Midwest Clinical and Translational Research Meeting of CSCTR and MWAFMR Trainee Abstract Award.

Publications

High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen versus Non-Invasive Ventilation in Subjects with COVID-19: A Systematic

Review and Meta-analysis of Comparative Studies. Respiratory Care.

Pulse versus nonpulse steroid regimens in patients with coronavirus disease 2019: A

systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Medical Virology.

Balanced Crystalloids versus Normal Saline in Adults with Sepsis: A

Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Clinical Medicine.

Triglyceride-Glucose Index for Early Prediction of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A

Meta-Analysis of 121,975 Individuals. Journal of Clinical Medicine.

LOW-DOSE ASPIRIN AND MORTALITY IN PATIENTS WITH CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019: A META-ANALYSIS. Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

PRONE POSITIONING IN NON-INTUBATED PATIENTS WITH COVID-19: A

SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND META-ANALYSIS. CHEST.

Clinically Significant Gastrointestinal Bleeding Using Proton Pump Inhibitors or Histamine Type-2 Receptor Antagonists

in Patients Intubated for Over 48 Hours: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. American Journal of Therapeutics.

ACUTE THROMBOSIS OF A LONGSTANDING UNRETRIEVED INFERIOR VENA CAVA FILTER

PRESENTING AS A CASE OF ORTHOSTATIC SYNCOPE. Journal of Experimental Medicine.

OSELTAMIVIR AND REMDESIVIR AS A TARGETED COMBINATION THERAPY FOR A YOUNG

AND PREVIOUSLY HEALTHY ADULT WITH ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME SECONDARY TO

FLURONA. Journal of Experimental Medicine.