Ahmad Nassr

TL;DR: Investigation of 750 consecutive multilevel cervical spine decompression surgeries performed by a single spine surgeon found no statistically significant difference in incidence of C5 palsy based on surgical procedure, although there was a trend toward higher rates with laminectomy and fusion.

TL;DR: Optimize of preoperative nutritional status, serum blood cell counts, and operative efficiency may lead to a reduction in SSI rates, and obese patients and patients on chronic steroid therapy should be counseled on elevated SSI risk.

TL;DR: Patients with T scores below −1.0 undergoing posterior lumbar fusion have an increased prevalence of adverse postsurgical events, or osteoporosis-related complications (ORCs), following spinal fusion, and consideration of bone density plays a crucial role in patient selection, medical management, and counseling patient expectations.

TL;DR: There is a 3-fold increase in risk of developing adjacent level disc degeneration in incorrectly marked discs after ACDF at short-term follow-up, which may indicate that either needle related trauma or unnecessary surgical dissection contributes to accelerated adjacent segment degeneration.

TL;DR: To radiographically quantify and compare the anatomy of the lumbar spine in symptomatic, congenitally stenotic individuals to age- and sex-matched, asymptomatic, nonstenotic controlled individuals, a prospective, control- matched, cohort radiographic analysis is conducted.