Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu

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Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu
Born1980
Ilorin, Kwara State
Education University of Ilorin
Occupation(s)Neurosurgeon, National Hospital, Abuja
Known forfirst woman neurosurgeon in West Africa

Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu is a Nigerian neurosurgeon. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu, was born in Ilorin, Kwara state, north Central Nigeria in 1980, but she is a native of Okene, Kogi State. [3] [4] [5] She attended the medical school in the University of Ilorin [5] to get her first degree. She trained and specialized in neurosurgery at Usmanu Danfodiyo University under Prof BB Shehu. [6]

Medical career

Aliu is the first female neurosurgeon in West Africa and also the first indigenous-trained female neurosurgeon in Nigeria. [7] [5] She currently works at the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital. [8] [9]

Personal life

Aliu is married with children. [10]

Publications

In this publication, Aliu, alongside seven other physicians, discusses the complications that can arise from the placement of a nasogastric tube, a common procedure for patients who are unable to feed themselves. In previous case studies regarding nasogastric tubes, complications such as coiling and knotting are blamed on small bore tubes and are said to be more common in patients with small stomachs. [12] However, Aliu and her colleagues challenge the position that small stomachs are at a greater risk for tube knotting, based on the extreme rarity of related complications in children. Instead, they argue that factors such as excess tube length, gastric surgery, and reduced gastric tone, specifically due to head injury, are the most reasonable predispositions for nasogastric tube knotting.

Aliu and her colleagues discuss the benefits of using methacrylate in the absence of custom bone, which can be too expensive or unavailable during a cranioplasty. They further describe cranioplasty techniques leading to successful outcomes when employing methacrylate.

In this joint publication with the previously mentioned colleagues, Aliu brings to light a rare chronic bacterial infection in the brain called subdural actinomycoma, which is commonly mistaken radiologically with a subdural hematoma or an empyema.

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References

  1. ↑ Karekezi, Claire; Thango, Nqobile; Aliu-Ibrahim, Salamat Ahuoiza; Bechri, Hajar; Broalet, Espérance Maman You; Bougrine, Mouna; Cheserem, Jebet Beverly; Mbaye, Maguette; Shabhay, Zarina Ali; Tighilt, Nabila; Bakhti, Souad; Abbadi, Najia El (2021-03-01). "History of African women in neurosurgery". Neurosurgical Focus. 50 (3): E15. doi:10.3171/2020.12.FOCUS20905. ISSN   1092-0684.
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  10. ↑ admin. "Nigeria's First Indigenous Female Neurosurgeon, Dr. Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu". cfrmagazine.com. Retrieved 2017-11-01.
  11. ↑ Ismail NJ, Bot GM, Hassan I, Shilong DJ, Obande JO, Aliu SA, Dung ED, Shehu BB (July 2014). "Knotting of a nasogastric feeding tube in a child with head injury: A case report and review of literature". African Journal of Paediatric Surgery. 11 (3): 273–5. doi: 10.4103/0189-6725.137343 . PMID   25047325.
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  13. ↑ Bot GM, Ismail NJ, Usman B, Shilong DJ, Obande JO, Aliu S, Sale D, Shehu BB (October 2013). "Using the head as a mould for cranioplasty with methylmethacrylate". Journal of Neurosciences in Rural Practice. 4 (4): 471–4. doi: 10.4103/0976-3147.120207 . PMC   3858776 . PMID   24347964.
  14. ↑ Ismail NJ, Bot GM, Sahabi S, Aliu S, Usman B, Shilong DJ, Obande JO, Shehu BB (April 2015). "Subdural actinomycoma presenting as recurrent chronic subdural hematoma". Asian Journal of Neurosurgery. 10 (2): 129–31. doi: 10.4103/1793-5482.145051 . PMC   4421953 . PMID   25972947.
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