Publications by authors named "Sohan S Shah"

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  • The main issue with radiosurgery for treating trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is that it can cause facial numbness, which can be really hard to deal with.
  • To help reduce this numbness while still treating the pain, doctors used a special method where patients received treatment over three days instead of just one.
  • In a study with 48 patients, 84% found relief from their pain after treatment, although some did experience numbness later on.
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  • There is ongoing debate about how to effectively manage high-risk arteriovenous malformations (AVMs), with traditional surgical methods posing challenges and stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) having less than 50% success rates alongside high radiation necrosis rates, especially for larger AVMs.
  • A pilot study tested a new approach using specific doses of radiation, administered in three or five sessions, aimed to deliver a biologically effective dose equivalent to 20 Gy in a single session to overcome past treatments' failures.
  • The study included 37 patients, all of whom achieved complete AVM obliteration within an average follow-up period of just over 26 months, demonstrating promising outcomes for this alternative SRS method.
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Objective: To evaluate the association of postoperative naloxone with the development of new substance use disorder (SUD), overdose, and death within 6 months of otolaryngologic surgery.

Study Design: Retrospective cohort database study on TriNetX.

Methods: Adult patients who underwent tonsil surgery (noncancerous), thyroid/parathyroid, septorhinoplasty, otology/neurotology, sinus/anterior skull base, and head and neck cancer surgeries between January 2003 and April 2023.

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Primary cardiac sarcoma is a rare malignant tumor that arises from the cardiac myocardium. Surgical resection is the standard of care, and median survival ranges from 6 to 12 months. The role of salvage chemotherapy and radiation is not well defined.

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Craniopharyngiomas are rare epithelial malformations in the sellar or suprasellar regions of the craniopharyngeal ducts. Complete surgical resection is difficult due to the location of the base of the skull and the risk of injury to vital neurological structures. Fractionated radiation is effective in controlling residual tumors, but craniopharyngiomas can progress during treatment.

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