Published Works

David X. Wang, DO, FAHA, and Arun v. Talkad, MD, published the article, "Treatment of Intracerebral Hemorrhage: What We Know?" in the January, 2009 Neurology and Neuroscience Report.

Lori Augspurger, BSN, RN, CNRN, along with Stylianos Rammos, MD; Jeffrey Klopfenstein, MD; Huan Wang, MD, Anne Wagenbach, APN, JUennifer Poston, RN and Giuseppe Lanzino, MD, published the article, "Conversion of External Ventricular Drains to Ventriculoperitoneal Shunts After Aneurismal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage: Effect of Site and Protein/Red Blood Cell Counts on Shunt Infection and Malfunction" in the Journal of Neurosurgery December 2008.

David Z. Wang, DO, FAHA, has been invited by the American Heart Association as one of the authors to write the next edition of the Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients with Acute Ischemic Stroke. The publication target date for this paper is May, 2010.

Fassett DR, Harrop JS, Vaccaro AR: Evidence on magnetic resonance imaging of Brown-Sequard spinal cord injury suffered indirectly from a gunshot wound. Case Report. Journal of Neurosurgery Spine 8:286-287, 2008.

Fassett DR, Brockmeyer DL, Apfelbaum RI: Odontiod Fractures in Children and Adults. In: Spine Trama: Adult and Pediatric. Editors: Kim DH, Ludwig SC, Vaccaro AR, Chang JC (Eds), Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA, July 2008.

Dasari VR, Veeravalli KK, Saving KL, Gujrati M, Fassett DR, Klopfenstein JD, Dinh DH, Rao JS: Neuroprotection by cord blood stem cells against glutamate-induced apoptosis is mediated by Akt pathway. Neurobiology of Disease 32:486-498, 2008.

Fassett DR, Harrop K: Klippel-Feil Cervical Segmentation Anomalies. In: Cervical Spine Surgery. Albert T, Lim M, Lee J (Eds), Theime Medical, New York, February 2008.

Kim LJ, Klopfenstein JD, Spetzler RF: Clip reconstruction and sling wrapping of fusiform.

Rammos SK, Klopfenstein J, Augspurger L, Wang H, Poston J, Wagenbach A, Lanzino G. Conversion of External ventricular drains to venticuloperitoneal shunt after aneurismal subarachnoid hemorrhage: effects of site and protein/red blood cell count on shunt infection and malfunction. Journal of Neurosurgery 109: 1001-1004, 2008.

Rammos SK, Lanzino G: [Response to Editorial of Sandberg DI, Heros RC:] Influence of protein, red blood cell count, and surgical site on shunt performance following aneurismal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Journal of Neurosurgery 109:998-1000, 2008.

Gondi CS, Dinh DH, Gujrati M, Rao JS. Simultaneous down regulation of uPAR and MMP-9 induces overexperssion of the FADD-associated protein RIP and activates caspase 9-medicated apoptosis in gliomas. International Journal of Oncology. 33(4): 783-90, 2008.

Gogineni VR, Kargiotis, Klopfenstein JD, Gujrati M, Dinh DH, Rao JS: RN Ai-mediated downregulation of radiation-induced MMP-9 leads to apoptosis via activation of ERK and Akt in IOMM-Lee cells. International Journal of Oncology 34:209-218, 2009.