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Species | Sohail K MirzaSummaryAffiliation: University of Washington Country: USA Publications
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Development of an index to characterize the "invasiveness" of spine surgery: validation by comparison to blood loss and operative timeSohail K Mirza
Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Center for Cost and Outcomes Research, and University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 33:2651-61; discussion 2662. 2008..Prospective cohort study...
Systematic review of randomized trials comparing lumbar fusion surgery to nonoperative care for treatment of chronic back painSohail K Mirza
Center for Cost and Outcomes Research, and Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 32:816-23. 2007..Systematic review of randomized trials comparing surgical to nonsurgical treatment of discogenic back pain...- Accuracy of thoracic vertebral body screw placement using standard fluoroscopy, fluoroscopic image guidance, and computed tomographic image guidance: a cadaver studySohail K Mirza
Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 28:402-13. 2003..A surgical simulation study in human cadaver spine specimens was conducted to evaluate the accuracy of thoracic vertebral body screw placement using four different intraoperative imaging techniques... 
Towards standardized measurement of adverse events in spine surgery: conceptual model and pilot evaluationSohail K Mirza
Center for Cost and Outcomes Research, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 7:53. 2006....- The safety of fluoroscopically-assisted thoracic pedicle screw instrumentation for spine traumaRichard Bransford
Department of Orthopaedics, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98104-2499, USA
J Trauma 60:1047-52. 2006..26%) malpositioned screws. CONCLUSIONS: This study supports the safety of pedicle screws in the thoracic spine using preoperative imaging evaluation, standard posterior element landmarks and intraoperative fluoroscopy... - Are lumbar spine reoperation rates falling with greater use of fusion surgery and new surgical technology?Brook I Martin
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 32:2119-26. 2007..A retrospective analysis of population-based hospital discharge registry from all nonfederal acute care hospitals in Washington State... - Neural space integrity of the lower cervical spine: effect of anterior lesionsDavid J Nuckley
Applied Biomechanics Laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 29:642-9. 2004..A repeated measures study design was used to evaluate intervertebral foramen and spinal canal neural space integrity subsequent to sequential surgical anterior lesions of the lower cervical spine in a human cadaver model... - A prospective cohort study of surgical treatment for back pain with degenerated discs; study protocolRichard A Deyo
Department of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
BMC Musculoskelet Disord 6:24. 2005..Little is known about how patients undergoing lumbar fusion compare in preoperative physical and psychological function to patients who have degenerative discs, but receive only non-surgical care... - Complex pediatric cervical spine surgery using smaller nonspinal screws and plates and intraoperative computed tomographyMahesh Karandikar
Department of Neurological Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle Children s Hospital, Seattle, WA, USA
J Neurosurg Pediatr 9:594-601. 2012.... - Expenditures and health status among adults with back and neck problemsBrook I Martin
Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
JAMA 299:656-64. 2008..Back and neck problems are among the symptoms most commonly encountered in clinical practice. However, few studies have examined national trends in expenditures for back and neck problems or related these trends to health status measures... - Clearing the cervical spine in obtunded patientsTyler J Harris
School of Medicine, University of Washington, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98104 2499, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 33:1547-53. 2008..Retrospective cohort study... - Using the spine surgical invasiveness index to identify risk of surgical site infection: a multivariate analysisAmy M Cizik
Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington Medical Center, 1959 N E Pacific Street, Box 356500, Seattle, WA 98195 6500, USA
J Bone Joint Surg Am 94:335-42. 2012..We hypothesized that a higher surgical invasiveness score will increase the risk for surgical site infection following spine surgery... - Trends in health care expenditures, utilization, and health status among US adults with spine problems, 1997-2006Brook I Martin
Departments of Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 34:2077-84. 2009..Analysis of nationally representative survey data for spine-related health care expenditures, utilization and self-reported health status... - Risk factors for respiratory failure following operative stabilization of thoracic and lumbar spine fracturesTimothy P McHenry
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
J Bone Joint Surg Am 88:997-1005. 2006..However, the authors of these studies analyzed small sets of patients and did not assess the independent effects of multiple risk factors... - Diagnosis and treatment of craniocervical dislocation in a series of 17 consecutive survivors during an 8-year periodCarlo Bellabarba
Departments of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98104, USA
J Neurosurg Spine 4:429-40. 2006..The purpose of this study was to elucidate systematic factors associated with delays in diagnosing and treating this life-threatening condition and to introduce an injury-severity classification with therapeutic implications... - Reoperation rates following lumbar spine surgery and the influence of spinal fusion proceduresBrook I Martin
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 32:382-7. 2007..Retrospective cohort study using a hospital discharge registry of all nonfederal acute care hospitals in Washington state... - Lumbar fusion outcomes in Washington State workers' compensationSham Maghout Juratli
Occupational Epidemiology and Health Outcomes Program, University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Seattle, WA 98103 9058, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 31:2715-23. 2006..Retrospective population-based cohort study... - The misdiagnosis of acute cervical spine injuries and fractures in infants and children: the 12-year experience of a level I pediatric and adult trauma centerAnthony M Avellino
Department of Neurological Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Childs Nerv Syst 21:122-7. 2005..The objective was to determine the frequency of acute cervical spine injuries and fractures that were misdiagnosed in infants and children (< or =14 years) initially evaluated at a pediatric and adult urban level I trauma center... - Type IX collagen neo-deposition in degenerative discs of surgical patients whether genotyped plus or minus for COL9 risk allelesYong Zhu
Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 36:2031-8. 2011..Immunohistochemical analysis of type IX collagen in disc tissue from spinal fusion patients... - Back pain prevalence and visit rates: estimates from U.S. national surveys, 2002Richard A Deyo
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 31:2724-7. 2006..Review and analysis of data from two U.S. national surveys in 2002... - Spinal-fusion surgery - the case for restraintRichard A Deyo
Department of Medicine, Center for Cost and Outcomes Research, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
N Engl J Med 350:722-6. 2004 - Classifications of thoracic and lumbar fractures: rationale and supporting dataSohail K Mirza
Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
J Am Acad Orthop Surg 10:364-77. 2002..Standardization of terminology as related to treatment decisions and prognosis is key to an improved understanding of the clinical behavior of these injuries and identification of optimal treatment options... - Mortality after lumbar fusion surgerySham Maghout Juratli
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, MI, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 34:740-7. 2009..Retrospective population-based cohort study... - Use of bone morphogenetic proteins in spinal fusion surgery for older adults with lumbar stenosis: trends, complications, repeat surgery, and chargesRichard A Deyo
Department of Family Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 37:222-30. 2012..Retrospective cohort study of Medicare claims... - Trends and variations in the use of spine surgeryRichard A Deyo
Department of Medicine, Center for Cost and Outcomes Research, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
Clin Orthop Relat Res 443:139-46. 2006..As new technology for spine surgery is introduced at an accelerating pace, we anticipate substantial changes in surgery patterns. Analysis of population-based data may be useful for surveillance of changes and their impacts... - Sleep disturbances in 22q11.2 deletion syndrome: a case with obstructive and central sleep apneaCarrie L Heike
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Craniofacial Medicine, University of Washington and Children s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
Cleft Palate Craniofac J 44:340-6. 2007..She also had central sleep apnea, initially attributed to spinal cord impingement from cervical instability. Posterior cervical fusion was associated with a decrease in the number of central apneic events... - Neural space integrity of the lower cervical spine: effect of normal range of motionDavid J Nuckley
Applied Biomechanics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 27:587-95. 2002..An experimental investigation of intervertebral foramen and spinal canal neural space integrity was performed throughout physiologic range of motion of the lower cervical spine in intact human cadaver specimens... - "Plough" fracture: shear fracture of the anterior arch of the atlasA Alex Mohit
Department of Neurological Surgery, Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington School of Medicine, 325 Ninth Ave, Box 359728, Seattle, WA 98104, USA
AJR Am J Roentgenol 181:770. 2003 - Spinal fluid surgeryRichard A Deyo
Spine J 5:698-9; author reply 699-700. 2005 - Vertebroplasty: learning more, but not enoughJeffrey G Jarvik
Spine 28:1487-9. 2003 - Accountability of the accused: facing public perceptions about financial conflicts of interest in spine surgerySohail K Mirza
Spine J 4:491-4. 2004 - Point of view: Commentary on the research reports that led to Food and Drug Administration approval of an artificial discSohail K Mirza
Spine 30:1561-4. 2005 - Severe posttraumatic craniocervical instability in the very young patient. Report of three casesSaadi Ghatan
Department of Neurological Surgery, Columbia University, Children s Hospital of New York, New York 10032, USA
J Neurosurg 101:102-7. 2004..All three were treated with prolonged immobilization and have recovered with minimal to no neurological deficit... - What patients knowSohail K Mirza
Surg Neurol 70:5-7. 2008 - Variation in reported safety of lumbar interbody fusion: influence of industrial sponsorship and other study characteristicsJoshua J Fenton
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA 95817, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 32:471-80. 2007..Systematic review... - Population-based trends in volumes and rates of ambulatory lumbar spine surgeryDarryl T Gray
Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 31:1957-63; discussion 1964. 2006..Sequential cross-sectional study...
Research Grants
- Safety of Lumbar Fusion Surgery for Chronic Back PainSohail Mirza; Fiscal Year: 2006..The analysis will use appropriate univariate and multivariate techniques to address the study questions. This study will provide data on the relative benefits and risks of lumbar fusion surgery in treating back pain. ..