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Luis Savastano, MD, PhD
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Luis Savastano, MD, PhD's Publications
Are orbital branches of the middle meningeal artery underestimated? A human cadaveric angiographic study.
Arteriovenous shunts of the cervical spine: patient demographics, presentation, patterns of high-risk venous drainage, and updated classification.
Associations between intraplaque hemorrhage and other high-risk plaque features in atherosclerotic plaques.
Development and validation of a perfused cadaveric model for neurovascular transradial access with insights from angiography and angioscopy.
Iatrogenic dural arteriovenous fistula formation as a rare complication of external ventricular drain placement: institutional review of 16 cases.
Microsurgical clipping of ruptured basilar artery perforator aneurysms in the endovascular era: A single-center experience.
Oxygen Extraction Fraction on Baseline MRI Predicts Infarction Growth in Successfully Reperfused Patients.
Preclinical feasibility study for transvascular drainage of non-acute subdural hematomas.
Rescue management of recurrent or growing non-acute subdural hematoma following standalone or adjunctive middle meningeal artery embolization: A case series and systematic review.
Visualization of Plaque Erosion With Laser Angioscopy.
A case of recurrent subdural hematoma after unilateral MMA embolization that resolved after contralateral MMA embolization.
An intuitive guidewire control mechanism for robotic intervention.
Clot composition and recanalization outcomes in mechanical thrombectomy.
Interhemispheric Contralateral Transcallosal Approach to a Giant Thalamic Cavernous Malformation: 2-Dimensional Operative Video.
Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Evacuation of Cerebellar Intracerebral Hemorrhage: An Illustrative Case Report.
Reversal of Middle Cerebral Artery Stenosis by Minimally Invasive Intracerebral Hematoma Evacuation.
Strategies to Improve Drug Delivery Across the Blood-Brain Barrier for Glioblastoma.
Symptomatic Nonstenotic Carotids: A Topical Review.
Associations between medications and carotid artery plaque morphology using semi-automated CTA analyses.
Carotid Artery Tortuosity and Internal Carotid Artery Plaque Composition.
Endovascular revascularization of chronically occluded common carotid artery for symptomatic cerebral hypoperfusion.
Intraplaque hemorrhage on magnetic resonance angiography: How often do signal abnormalities persist on follow-up imaging?
Middle meningeal artery embolization for chronic subdural hematoma: A single-center experience and predictive modeling of outcomes.
Middle meningeal artery embolization with polyvinyl alcohol particles in a patient with ophthalmic artery origin from middle meningeal artery: Case report and technical note.
Patient-reported outcome measures in cerebrovascular neurosurgery.
Revascularization of a Complex Case of Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency with Occipital Artery-Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Bypass.
Vagus nerve stimulation using an endovascular electrode array.
"Near-Clinical" Testing of Neuroendovascular Technology in a "Live" Human Cadaveric Model.
Anatomy of Spinal Venous Drainage for the Neurointerventionalist: From Puncture Site to Intervertebral Foramen.
Arterial Collapse during Thrombectomy for Stroke: Clinical Evidence and Experimental Findings in Human Brains and In Vivo Models.
Bibliometric Trends in Open Surgical and Endovascular Cerebrovascular Research.
Carotid artery endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic non-stenotic carotid artery disease.
Change of Heart: The Underexplored Role of Plaque Hemorrhage in the Evaluation of Stroke of Undetermined Etiology.
Clinical and imaging outcomes of cerebrospinal fluid-venous fistula embolization.
Comparison of Stroke Risk Factors between Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Patients in a North American Moyamoya Disease Cohort.
Construction and Validation of a Benchtop Model for Testing of Mechanical Thrombectomy Devices for Pulmonary Embolism.
Correlation of von Willebrand factor and platelets with acute ischemic stroke etiology and revascularization outcome: an immunohistochemical study.
Dynamic Vertebral Artery Compression by Solitary Osteochondroma Presenting With Recurrent Posterior Circulation Strokes.
Electroencephalogram and heart rate variability features as predictors of responsiveness to vagus nerve stimulation in patients with epilepsy: a systematic review.
Evaluation of an in vivo preclinical model for human middle meningeal artery embolization using the posterior intercostal artery of the swine.
Extra-Intimal Carotid Endarterectomy: Two-Dimensional Microsurgical Approach.
Histological composition of retrieved emboli in acute ischemic stroke is independent of pre-thrombectomy alteplase use.
Human "live cadaver" neurovascular model for proximal and distal mechanical thrombectomy in stroke.
International Union of Angiology (IUA) consensus paper on imaging strategies in atherosclerotic carotid artery imaging: From basic strategies to advanced approaches.
Intra-procedural cerebral sinus thrombosis during endovascular treatment of idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
Pituitary adenomas and cerebrovascular disease: A review on pathophysiology, prevalence, and treatment.
Reassessing the Carotid Artery Plaque "Rim Sign" on CTA: A New Analysis with Histopathologic Confirmation.
Surgical Techniques and Nuances for Superior Cervical Ganglionectomy and Decentralization in Rats.
The "Michelangelo Code": The Quest for Universal Truth.
Thirty-Day Stroke and Mortality After Carotid Revascularization Among Octogenarians with Symptomatic Carotid Stenosis: Real-World Evidence from a National Surgical Quality Registry.
Unifying theory of carotid plaque disruption based on structural phenotypes and forces expressed at the lumen/wall interface.
Use of intravascular optical coherence tomography to confirm the diagnosis of a carotid web in a patient with recurrent ipsilateral embolic strokes and evaluate the response to stenting.
Vessel wall imaging features of Moyamoya disease in a North American population: patterns of negative remodelling, contrast enhancement, wall thickening, and stenosis.
A human brain test bed for research in large vessel occlusion stroke.
A Novel Endovascular Therapy for CSF Hypotension Secondary to CSF-Venous Fistulas.
A novel rabbit thromboembolic occlusion model.
A Thrombectomy Model Based on Ex Vivo Whole Human Brains.
Association between clot composition and stroke origin in mechanical thrombectomy patients: analysis of the Stroke Thromboembolism Registry of Imaging and Pathology.
Asystole during Onyx embolization of 64-year-old patient with dural arteriovenous fistula.
Carotid Intraplaque Hemorrhage and Stenosis: At What Stage of Plaque Progression Does Intraplaque Hemorrhage Occur, and When is It Most Likely to Be Associated with Symptoms?
Carotid Plaques From Symptomatic Patients With Mild Stenosis Is Associated With Intraplaque Hemorrhage.
Correlation between computed tomography angiography and histology of carotid artery atherosclerosis: Can semi-automated imaging software predict a plaque's composition?
Correlation of Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio with Expression of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Within Stroke Emboli.
Diverse thrombus composition in thrombectomy stroke patients with longer time to recanalization.
Endarterectomy for symptomatic non-stenotic carotids: a systematic review and descriptive analysis.
Evaluation and treatment of headache associated with moyamoya disease - a narrative review.
Failure modes and effects analysis of mechanical thrombectomy for stroke discovered in human brains.
Histological evaluation of acute ischemic stroke thrombi may indicate the occurrence of vessel wall injury during mechanical thrombectomy.
Iatrogenic Foreign Materials Associated with Retrieved Clot Tissue via Mechanical Thrombectomy.
Implementation and Rationale for a Unified Clinical and Imaging Protocol for Evaluation and Treatment of Moyamoya Angiopathy: A Single Institutional Experience.
Intraplaque CTA characteristics as predictors of symptomatology: a semiautomated volumetric analysis.
Mechanisms of fibrinolysis resistance and potential targets for thrombolysis in acute ischaemic stroke: lessons from retrieved stroke emboli.
Normalized intraplaque hemorrhage signal on MP-RAGE as a marker for acute ischemic neurological events.
Novel Human Acute Ischemic Stroke Blood Clot Analogs for In Vitro Thrombectomy Testing.
Per pass analysis of thrombus composition retrieved by mechanical thrombectomy.
Per-pass analysis of recanalization and good neurological outcome in thrombectomy for stroke: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
Postprocedural Thrombosis following Endovascular Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysm with Flow Diverters or Coiling: A Histologic Study.
Preclinical testing platforms for mechanical thrombectomy in stroke: a review on phantoms, in-vivo animal, and cadaveric models.
Progressive Myelopathy From a Craniocervical Junction Dural Arteriovenous Fistula.
Quantification of clot spatial heterogeneity and its impact on thrombectomy.
Safety and efficacy of Angio-Seal device for transfemoral neuroendovascular procedures: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Semiautomated carotid artery plaque composition: are intraplaque CT imaging features associated with cardiovascular risk factors?
Systematic review and meta-analysis of current rates of first pass effect by thrombectomy technique and associations with clinical outcomes.
The social media conundrum.
Thrombus Histology as It Relates to Mechanical Thrombectomy: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.
Transvenous embolization of a cerebrospinal fluid-venous fistula for the treatment of spontaneous intracranial hypotension.
Analysis of human emboli and thrombectomy forces in large-vessel occlusion stroke.
Cardiac manifestations in a western moyamoya disease population: a single-center descriptive study and review.
Carotid artery revascularization: endarterectomy versus endovascular therapy.
Carotid Intraplaque Hemorrhage Is Associated with Cardiovascular Risk Factors.
Construction of a comprehensive endovascular test bed for research and device development in mechanical thrombectomy in stroke.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 and the Cerebrovascular-Cardiovascular Systems: What Do We Know So Far?
Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source: The Association With Carotid Intraplaque Hemorrhage.
Left-sided carotid arteries have a higher prevalence of intraplaque hemorrhage than right-sided: An asymmetric conundrum.
Letter: An International Investigation Into the COVID-19 Pandemic and Workforce Depletion in Highly Specialized Neurointerventional Units - Insights From Stroke Thrombectomy and Aneurysm Registry and Endovascular Neurosurgery Research Group.
Standardized Fabrication Method of Human-Derived Emboli with Histologic and Mechanical Quantification for Stroke Research.
Variations in the Presence of Carotid Intraplaque Hemorrhage Across Age Categories: What Age Groups Are Most Likely to Benefit From Plaque Imaging?
Posterior Fossa Craniotomy for Adherent Fourth Ventricle Neurocysticercosis.
Single Cell Sequencing of the Pineal Gland: The Next Chapter.
Delayed extrusion of embolic coils into the airway after embolization of an external carotid artery pseudoaneurysm.
Incidence of the initiation of comfort care immediately following emergent neurosurgical and endovascular procedures.
Infected symptomatic carotid artery atheroma concurrent with bacterial endocarditis.
Late recanalization of basilar artery occlusion in a previously healthy 17-month-old child.
Microvascular Brainstem Ischemia After Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery: A Clinical and Microanatomic Study.
Primary diffuse leptomeningeal melanomatosis: Description and recommendations.
Ventriculoscopic Surgery for Cystic Retrochiasmatic Craniopharyngiomas: Indications, Surgical Technique, and Short-Term Patient Outcomes.
Delayed extrusion of embolic coils into the airway after embolization of an external carotid artery pseudoaneurysm.
Diagnostic and Interventional Optical Angioscopy in Ex Vivo Carotid Arteries.
Korsakoff syndrome from retrochiasmatic suprasellar lesions: rapid reversal after relief of cerebral compression in 4 cases.
Late recanalization of basilar artery occlusion in a previously healthy 17-month-old child.
Multimodal laser-based angioscopy for structural, chemical and biological imaging of atherosclerosis.
Optic neuropathy after anterior communicating artery aneurysm clipping: 3 cases and techniques to address a correctable pitfall.
Scanning Fiber Angioscopy: A Multimodal Intravascular Imaging Platform for Carotid Atherosclerosis.
Simulator and 2 tools: Validation of performance measures from a novel neurosurgery simulation model using the current Standards framework.
Acute ischemic stroke in a child due to basilar artery occlusion treated successfully with a stent retriever.
Acute ischemic stroke in a child due to basilar artery occlusion treated successfully with a stent retriever.
Development of a 3D-printed external ventricular drain placement simulator: technical note.
Expression and cellular localization of the transcription factor NeuroD1 in the developing and adult rat pineal gland.
Microvascular anatomy of the cerebellar parafloccular perforating space.
Neurotranscriptomics: The Effects of Neonatal Stimulus Deprivation on the Rat Pineal Transcriptome.
Sciatic nerve injury: a simple and subtle model for investigating many aspects of nervous system damage and recovery.
Stent-assisted coil embolization of a symptomatic middle cerebral artery aneurysm in an infant.
New evidence of prefrontal lobotomy in the last months of the illness of Eva Perón.
A standardized surgical technique for rat superior cervical ganglionectomy.
