Publications by authors named "Juan R Ortega-Barnett"
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- The study aimed to determine whether preoperative MRI influences surgical planning for patients with acute traumatic cervical spinal cord injury (ATCSCI), proposing that surgical plans would not significantly change after MRI and that agreement among surgeons would remain low.
- Using a survey study of 29 trauma patients, the results showed that 93% of surgical plans changed after reviewing MRI, indicating that MRI does add value to surgical planning.
- Despite MRI's impact on changing surgical plans, the agreement among different surgeons regarding those plans was low both before and after MRI analysis.
Surgical resection is the current standard of therapy for the treatment of arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Endovascular embolization is commonly used as an adjunct prior to surgical resection because it is believed to reduce the risk of intraoperative bleeding. Embolization has been associated with other complications including visual deficits, vessel perforation, and catheter adhesion.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The use of intraoperative CT-guidance during the percutaneous treatment of trigeminal neuralgia has become increasingly popular due to the greater ease of foramen ovale cannulation and decreased procedure times. Concerns regarding radiation dose to the patient, however, remain unaddressed. We sought to compare the emitted radiation dose from fluoroscopy with intraoperative CT for these procedures.
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