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| Michael J AlexanderSummaryAffiliation: Duke University Medical Center Country: USA Publications
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Treatment of an iatrogenic petrous carotid artery pseudoaneurysm with a Symbiot covered stent: technical case reportMichael J Alexander
Division of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Neurosurgery 50:658-62. 2002..This report details the case of an acute petrous carotid pseudoaneurysm after a myringotomy procedure that was effectively treated with an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene-covered stent...- Targeting cerebral arteriovenous malformations for minimally invasive therapyMichael J Alexander
Duke Neurovascular Center, Division of Neurosurgery, Duke Clinic, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Neurosurgery 59:S178-83; discussion S3-13. 2006..In some cases, embolization alone may be able to angiographically cure an AVM, although this is a small percentage of all AVMs... - Endoscopic saphenous vein graft harvest for extracranial-intracranial bypass proceduresMichael J Alexander
Division of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Surg Neurol 63:565-8; discussion 568. 2005..This report introduces the use of the endoscopic SVG harvest for extracranial-intracranial (EC-IC) bypass procedures... - Extradural thoracic arteriovenous malformation in a patient with Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome: case reportMichael J Alexander
Division of Neurosurgery and Interventional Neuroradiology, Duke University Medical Center, Duke Clinic, 4505 Busse Building, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Neurosurgery 51:1275-8; discussion 1278-9. 2002..This report details a rare case of an extradural thoracic AVM in a patient with KTW syndrome... - Management of intraprocedural arterial thrombus in cerebral aneurysm embolization with abciximab: technical case reportMichael J Alexander
Division of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Neurosurgery 50:899-901; discussion 901-2. 2002..This report describes the use of intravenously administered abciximab for the treatment of intraprocedural arterial thrombus encountered during the coil embolization of a recently ruptured anterior communicating artery aneurysm... - Combined microsurgical and endovascular treatment of a giant left middle cerebral artery aneurysmAli Zomorodi
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
J Neurointerv Surg 2:213-6. 2010..In these cases, endovascular trapping of the aneurysm may be undertaken through the bypass graft. The feasibility of this management scheme is demonstrated... - Simvastatin reduces vasospasm after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: results of a pilot randomized clinical trialJohn R Lynch
Departments of Medicine Neurology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Stroke 36:2024-6. 2005..Cerebral vasospasm remains a major source of morbidity after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). We demonstrate that simvastatin reduces serum markers of brain injury and attenuates vasospasm after SAH... - Costs of vasospasm in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhageChia Hung Chou
Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
Neurosurgery 67:345-51; discussion 351-2. 2010..To assess the impact of vasospasm on costs, length of stay, and mortality among inpatients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage... - Leukocytosis as an independent risk factor for cerebral vasospasm following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhageMatthew J McGirt
Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
J Neurosurg 98:1222-6. 2003..Monitoring of the serum leukocyte count may allow for early diagnosis and treatment of vasospasm... - Use of the peak troponin value to differentiate myocardial infarction from reversible neurogenic left ventricular dysfunction associated with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhageKetan R Bulsara
Department of Surgery Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
J Neurosurg 98:524-8. 2003..The authors hypothesized that the cardiac troponin (cTn) trend and/or echocardiogram could be used to differentiate between the two entities... - Early carotid artery stenting and angioplasty in patients with acute ischemic strokeOsama O Zaidat
Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, Duke University Health System, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Neurosurgery 55:1237-42; discussion 1242-3. 2004..CONCLUSION: If deemed necessary and in certain circumstances, early CAS seems to be safe after acute ischemic stroke if infarction volume is small and neurological deficit is mild... - Thromboelastography detects inadequate response to abciximab therapy during stent-assisted cerebral aneurysm coil embolization complicated by strokeFrederick W Lombard
Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Neurocrit Care 4:32-4. 2006..However, we describe a failure of abciximab rescue therapy and discuss the importance of monitoring the variable individual response to abciximab... - Primary endovascular therapy with clot retrieval and balloon angioplasty for acute basilar artery occlusionOsama O Zaidat
Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Pediatr Neurosurg 41:323-7. 2005..This case highlights the use of primary neurointerventional devices in children with BA occlusion presenting beyond the conventional therapeutic window for other interventions... - Thromboembolic complications after Neuroform stent-assisted treatment of cerebral aneurysms: the Duke Cerebrovascular Center experience in 235 patients with 274 stentsMark L Lessne
Department of Radiology, Division of Neurointerventional Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Neurosurgery 69:369-75. 2011..The Neuroform Stent has facilitated the endovascular treatment of wide-necked cerebral aneurysms. It is unknown which factors pose risks of thromboembolic events after stent placement... - Delayed stenosis following placement of a polyethylene terephthalate endograft in the cervical carotid artery. Report of three casesTony P Smith
Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
J Neurosurg 98:421-5. 2003..Although the Wallgraft endoprosthesis produced good initial results for the treatment of cervical CA pseudoaneurysms, as demonstrated on radiography, it was associated with a high rate of stenosis or occlusion in all three patients... - Dynamic CT perfusion imaging with acetazolamide challenge for the preprocedural evaluation of a patient with symptomatic middle cerebral artery occlusive diseaseJames D Eastwood
Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, Box 3808 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710 3808, USA
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 23:285-7. 2002..Dynamic CT perfusion imaging represents a widely available and minimally invasive alternative to other available methods of cerebral perfusion imaging... - De novo cerebral arteriovenous malformation: case reportKetan R Bulsara
Division of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA
Neurosurgery 50:1137-40; discussion 1140-1. 2002..CONCLUSION: This study details the case of a woman who developed a de novo cerebral AVM during a 6-year period. This report challenges the conventional belief that all AVMs have a congenital cause... - Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography of vascular malformations in pediatric patients. Case reportSrinivasan Mukundan
Department of Radiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, USA
J Neurosurg 107:228-31. 2007..This lesion was confirmed on catheter angiography, and definitive treatment via embolization was undertaken in a single session. The patient's therapeutic response will be followed with surveillance dynamic MR imaging... - Characteristics of nontraumatic subarachnoid hemorrhage in the United States in 2003Alisa M Shea
Center for Clinical and Genetic Economics, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina 27715, USA
Neurosurgery 61:1131-7; discussion 1137-8. 2007..We examined the epidemiology and in-hospital outcomes of nontraumatic SAH in the United States... - Medical versus surgical therapy for spontaneous intracranial hemorrhageKenneth M Little
Division of Neurosurgery, Duke University Medical Center, PO Box 3807, Durham, NC 27710, USA
Neurosurg Clin N Am 13:339-47. 2002..g., craniotomy, craniectomy, stereotactic needle aspiration, stereotactically guided endoscopic evacuation). Trials designed specifically to compare different surgical methods would be helpful... - The value of CT angiography and transcranial doppler sonography in triaging suspected cerebral vasospasm in SAH prior to endovascular therapyCatalina C Ionita
Stroke Neurocritical Care Department, Millard Fillmore Gates Hospital, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14209, USA
Neurocrit Care 9:8-12. 2008.... - Transbrachial stent-assisted coil embolization of right posterior inferior cerebellar artery aneurysm: technical case reportOsama O Zaidat
Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA
J Neuroimaging 17:344-7. 2007..We describe a case of stent-assisted coil embolization of a wide neck right posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) aneurysm via a transbrachial artery approach... - Risk of cerebral vasopasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage reduced by statin therapy: A multivariate analysis of an institutional experienceMatthew J McGirt
Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland 21287, USA
J Neurosurg 105:671-4. 2006..The authors hypothesized that patients chronically treated with statins would have a decreased risk of symptomatic vasospasm after SAH... - Long-term outcome of endovascular stenting for symptomatic basilar artery stenosisOsama O Zaidat
Neurology 65:1340-1; author reply 1340-1. 2005 - Thrombolytic therapy of acute ischemic stroke: correlation of angiographic recanalization with clinical outcomeOsama O Zaidat
Department of Neurology, Case Western University Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA
AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 26:880-4. 2005..The degree of recanalization was directly related to time to therapy and associated with good clinical outcome without an increase in the rate of adverse effect... - Intracerebral hemorrhages associated with neurointerventional procedures using a combination of antithrombotic agents including abciximabAdnan I Qureshi
Department of Neurosurgery and Toshiba Stroke Research Center, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
Stroke 33:1916-9. 2002..We report the occurrence of fatal intracerebral hemorrhage associated with using a combination of antithrombotic agents, including abciximab, in patients undergoing neurointerventional procedures... - Endovascular treatment of inadvertent cannulation of the vertebro-subclavian arterial junctionThomas J Wolfe
Department of Neurology, Medical College of Wisconsin Froedtert Hospital, 9200 W Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Neurocrit Care 6:113-6. 2007..Inadvertent arterial cannulation at a noncompressible site is a highly risky complication of central venous line placement... - Intra-arterial thrombolytic therapy in peri-coronary angiography ischemic strokeOsama O Zaidat
Department of Neurology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Stroke 36:1089-90. 2005..Intra-arterial thrombolysis (IAT) for peri-coronary angiography (CA) stroke may be safe and efficacious. However, IAT may increase the risk of intracranial hemorrhage (ICH)... - The NIH registry on use of the Wingspan stent for symptomatic 70-99% intracranial arterial stenosisO O Zaidat
Associate Medical College of Wisconsin Froedtert Hospital, 9200 W Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA
Neurology 70:1518-24. 2008..The Wingspan intracranial stent is another therapeutic option but there are limited data on the technical success of stenting and outcome of patients with 70% to 99% stenosis treated with a Wingspan stent... - Anteroinferior cerebellar artery aneurysms: surgical approaches and outcomes--a review of 34 casesL Fernando Gonzalez
Division of Neurological Surgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Neurosurgery 55:1025-35. 2004..Hypothermic cardiac arrest facilitates dissection of giant aneurysms. Endovascular treatment is a useful adjunct for treating residual aneurysms but did not provide definitive treatment in any of our patients... - Correlation of serum brain natriuretic peptide with hyponatremia and delayed ischemic neurological deficits after subarachnoid hemorrhageMatthew J McGirt
Department of Neurosurgery, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Neurosurgery 54:1369-73; discussion 1373-4. 2004..CONCLUSION: Increasing serum BNP levels independently were associated with hyponatremia, significantly increased the first 24 hours after onset of delayed ischemic neurological deficits, and predicted the 2-week Glasgow Coma Scale score...