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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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Do Longer Surgical Procedures Result in Greater Contamination of Surgeons’ Hands?
Pooria Hosseini,Gregory M. Mundis,Robert K. Eastlack,Allen Nourian,Jeff Pawelek,Stacie Nguyen,Behrooz A. Akbarnia +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the correlation between surgical duration and hand contamination at the end of surgery and found that the duration of surgery correlates with hand recontamination and at 5 hours, recolonization of a surgeon's hands become detectable.
Patent
Flexible fastening system
TL;DR: A flexible implant system as mentioned in this paper is a system that includes a flexible implant, an implant housing, and an implant set screw, which is configured to loop around a portion of a bony element.
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Comparison of Patient and Surgeon Perceptions of Adverse Events After Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery
Robert A. Hart,Adam Cabalo,Shay Bess,Behrooz A. Akbarnia,Oheneba Boachie-Adjei,Douglas Burton,Matthew E. Cunningham,Munish C. Gupta,Richard A. Hostin,Khaled M. Kebaish,Eric O. Klineberg,Gregory M. Mundis,Christopher I. Shaffrey,Justin S. Smith,Kirkham B. Wood +14 more
TL;DR: There was substantial variation in how both surgeons and patients perceived impacts of various adverse events after spine surgery, and patients generally perceived the impact of adverse events to be greater than surgeons.
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Can a Minimal Clinically Important Difference Be Achieved in Elderly Patients with Adult Spinal Deformity Who Undergo Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery
Paul Park,David O. Okonkwo,Stacie Nguyen,Gregory M. Mundis,Khoi D. Than,Vedat Deviren,Frank La Marca,Kai-Ming G. Fu,Michael Wang,Juan S. Uribe,Neel Anand,Richard G. Fessler,Pierce D. Nunley,Dean Chou,Adam S. Kanter,Christopher I. Shaffrey,Behrooz A. Akbarnia,Peter G. Passias,Robert K. Eastlack,Praveen V. Mummaneni +19 more
TL;DR: The study results suggest that the majority of elderly patients with modest ASD can achieve MCID with MIS, and represents the threshold at which patients feel a meaningful clinical improvement has occurred.