Browsing by Author "Abd-El-Barr, Muhammad M"
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A Novel Approach to Percutaneous Lumbar Surgeries via Kambin's Triangle - A Radiographic and Surgical Planning Analysis with Nerve Segmentation Technology.
(World neurosurgery, 2023-06)<h4>Objective</h4>While Kambin's triangle has become an ever more important anatomic window given its proximity to the exiting nerve root, there have been limited studies examining the effect of disease on the corridor. ... -
Awake spinal anesthesia facilitates spine surgery in poor surgical candidates: A case series.
(Neuro-Chirurgie, 2023-05)<h4>Background</h4>Annually, hundreds of thousands of patients undergo surgery for degenerative spine disease (DSD). This represents only a fraction of patients that present for surgical consideration. Procedures are often ... -
Awake Spinal Fusion Is Associated with Reduced Length of Stay, Opioid Use, and Time to Ambulation Compared to General Anesthesia: A Matched Cohort Study.
(World neurosurgery, 2023-05)<h4>Objective</h4>There is increasing interest in awake spinal fusion under spinal anesthesia (SA). Evidence supporting SA has been positive, albeit limited. The authors set out to investigate the effects of SA vs general ... -
Beyond Placement of Pedicle Screws - New Applications for Robotics in Spine Surgery: A Multi-Surgeon, Single-Institution Experience.
(Frontiers in surgery, 2022-01)Interest in robotic-assisted spine surgery has grown as surgeon comfort and technology has evolved to maximize benefits of time saving and precision. However, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has currently only approved ... -
Biomechanics, evaluation, and management of subaxial cervical spine injuries: A comprehensive review of the literature.
(Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia, 2021-01)<h4>Study design</h4>Literature review.<h4>Objectives</h4>It has been reported that 2.4-3.7% of all blunt trauma victims suffer some element of cervical spine fracture, with the majority of these patients suffering from ... -
Demographics, Mechanism of Injury and Outcomes for Acute Upper and Lower Cervical Spinal Cord Injuries - An Analysis of 470 Patients in the Prospective, Multicenter North American Clinical Trials Network (NACTN) Registry.
(Journal of neurotrauma, 2023-02)There is a paucity of data comparing the demographics, mechanism of injury, and outcomes of upper versus lower cervical spinal cord injuries (cSCI). The study objective was to define different clinical manifestations of ... -
Hematocrit as a predictor of preoperative transfusion-associated complications in spine surgery: A NSQIP study.
(Clinical neurology and neurosurgery, 2021-01)<h4>Background context</h4>Preoperative optimization of medical comorbidities prior to spinal surgery is becoming an increasingly important intervention in decreasing postoperative complications and ensuring a satisfactory ... -
Improved Dysphagia Outcomes in Anchored Spacers Versus Plate-Screw Systems in Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: A Systematic Review
<jats:sec><jats:title>Study Design:</jats:title><jats:p> Systematic review and meta-analysis. </jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Objective:</jats:title><jats:p> To perform a systematic review of clinical outcomes ... -
Instrument Tracking for Prone Lateral Surgery.
(World neurosurgery, 2023-01)The prone lateral transpsoas approach for lumbar interbody fusion and posterior instrumentation enables a large surface area implant without disruption of the posterior spine musculature from a single position.1,2 The addition ... -
Interhospital Transfer delays care for spinal cord injury patients: A Report from the North American Clinical Trials Network for Spinal Cord Injury.
(Journal of neurotrauma, 2023-04)The North America Clinical Trials Network (NACTN) for Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) is a consortium of tertiary medical centers that has maintained a prospective SCI registry since 2004, and has espoused that early surgical ... -
Interhospital transfer status for spinal metastasis patients in the United States is associated with more severe clinical presentations and higher rates of inpatient complications.
(Neurosurgical focus, 2021-05)<h4>Objective</h4>In patients with metastatic spinal disease (MSD), interhospital transfer can potentially impact clinical outcomes as the possible benefits of transferring a patient to a higher level of care must be weighed ... -
Management of Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury: A Review of the Literature.
(Frontiers in surgery, 2021-01)Traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) is a debilitating disease that poses significant functional and economic burden on both the individual and societal levels. Prognosis is dependent on the extent of the spinal injury and ... -
Measuring Outcomes in Spinal Deformity Surgery
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Minimally invasive lateral retroperitoneal transpsoas approach for lumbar corpectomy and fusion with posterior instrumentation.
(Neurosurgical focus: Video, 2022-07)In this video, the authors highlight the operative treatment of a 55-year-old man with chronic osteomyelitis discitis. The operation entailed a minimally invasive lateral retroperitoneal transpsoas approach for L3 and L4 ... -
Novel Merging of CT and MRI to Allow for Safe Navigation into Kambin's Triangle for Percutaneous Lumbar Interbody Fusion-Initial Case Series Investigating Safety and Efficacy.
(Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.), 2023-03)<h4>Background</h4>For percutaneous lumbar fusion (percLIF), magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography are critical to defining surgical corridors. Currently, these scans are performed separately, and surgeons then ... -
Perioperative Pain Management for Elective Spine Surgery: Opioid Use and Multimodal Strategies.
(World neurosurgery, 2022-06)In recent years, physicians and institutions have come to recognize the increasing opioid epidemic in the United States, thus prompting a dramatic shift in opioid prescribing patterns. The lack of well-studied alternative ... -
Preoperative optimization for patients undergoing elective spine surgery.
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Pseudarthrosis rate following anterior cervical discectomy with fusion using an allograft cellular bone matrix: a multi-institutional analysis.
(Neurosurgical focus, 2021-06)<h4>Objective</h4>The use of osteobiologics, engineered materials designed to promote bone healing by enhancing bone growth, is becoming increasingly common for spinal fusion procedures, but the efficacy of some of these ... -
Retroperitoneal dermoid cyst presenting with radiculopathy symptoms: a case report.
(Journal of surgical case reports, 2022-12)Dermoid cysts rarely present in the retroperitoneal space or during adulthood. In this case report, we describe the clinical presentation, operative and post-operative course of a 31-year old with a retroperitoneal dermoid ... -
Single-position prone transpsoas fusion for the treatment of lumbar adjacent segment disease: early experience of twenty-four cases across three tertiary medical centers.
(European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society, 2022-09)<h4>Purpose</h4>Prone transpsoas fusion (PTP) is a minimally invasive technique that maximizes the benefit of lateral access interbody surgery and the prone positioning for surgically significant adjacent segment disease. ...
