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Behrooz A. Akbarnia
Researcher at University of California, San Diego
Publications - 244
Citations - 11722
Behrooz A. Akbarnia is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Scoliosis & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 56, co-authored 224 publications receiving 9799 citations. Previous affiliations of Behrooz A. Akbarnia include Boston Children's Hospital & University of Southern California.
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Patients with adult spinal deformity treated operatively report greater baseline pain and disability than patients treated nonoperatively; however, deformities differ between age groups.
Kai-Ming G. Fu,Shay Bess,Christopher I. Shaffrey,Justin S. Smith,Virginie Lafage,Frank J. Schwab,Douglas C. Burton,Behrooz A. Akbarnia,Christopher P. Ames,Oheneba Boachie-Adjei,Vedat Deverin,Robert A. Hart,Richard A. Hostin,Eric O. Klineberg,Munish C. Gupta,Khaled M. Kebaish,Gregory M. Mundis,Praveen V. Mummaneni +17 more
TL;DR: Age-related radiographical parameters associated with poor health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and treatment preferences for ASD were identified and poor HRQOL uniformly determined operative treatment for ASD.
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Debate: degenerative scoliosis: to operate or not to operate.
TL;DR: The decision to operate on an elderly patient with significant comorbidities must weigh the high complication and reoperation rates against anticipated improvement, and the surgeon should offer options and probabilities, but the patient must bear the consequences of that choice.
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Preliminary results of anterior lumbar interbody fusion, anterior column realignment for the treatment of sagittal malalignment
Pooria Hosseini,Gregory M. Mundis,Robert K. Eastlack,Ramin Bagheri,Enrique Vargas,Stacie Tran,Behrooz A. Akbarnia +6 more
TL;DR: This study showed satisfactory radiographic and clinical outcomes at the 1-year follow-up for patients treated using the ALIF-ACR technique, and improvements in sagittal vertical axis, T-1 spinopelvic inclination, lumbar lordosis, pelvic incidence-lumbarLordosis mismatch, intradiscal angle, and motion segment angle all improved.
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Posterior capsulotomy for the treatment of severe flexion contractures of the knee
TL;DR: Twenty-nine patients with severe flexion contracture of the knee were treated by posterior capsulotomy followed by traction and/or casting, and after a follow-up of 2½ years, 39 knees were corrected to <15° of flexion.
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Evaluating the extent of clinical uncertainty among treatment options for patients with early-onset scoliosis
Jacqueline Corona,Daniel J. Miller,Jenny Downs,Behrooz A. Akbarnia,Randal R. Betz,Laurel C. Blakemore,Robert M. Campbell,John M. Flynn,Charles E. Johnston,Richard E. McCarthy,David P. Roye,David L. Skaggs,John T. Smith,Brian D. Snyder,Paul D. Sponseller,Peter Sturm,George H. Thompson,Muharrem Yazici,Michael G. Vitale +18 more
TL;DR: Variability in decision making with regard to the optimum treatment of certain subsets of patients with early-onset scoliosis reflects gaps in the available evidence.