Saman Shabani, MD

Publications

• Leveraging machine learning to ascertain the implications of preoperative body mass index on surgical outcomes for 282 patients with preoperative obesity and lumbar spondylolisthesis in the Quality Outcomes Database.

  (Agarwal N, Aabedi AA, Chan AK, Letchuman V, Shabani S, Bisson EF, Bydon M, Glassman SD, Foley KT, Shaffrey CI, Potts EA, Shaffrey ME, Coric D, Knightly JJ, Park P, Wang MY, Fu KM, Slotkin JR, Asher AL, Virk MS, Haid RW, Chou D, Mummaneni PV.) J Neurosurg Spine. 2023 Feb 01;38(2):182-191 PMID: 36208428 10/09/2022

• COVID-19 co-infection in a patient with brucellosis.

  (Shabani S, Ghadimi S.) Clin Case Rep. 2022 Sep;10(9):e6367 PMID: 36188045 PMCID: PMC9500419 10/04/2022

• The Clinical Impact of Failing to Achieve Ideal Proportional Realignment in Adult Spinal Deformity Patients.

  (Passias PG, Passfall L, Williamson TK, Schoenfeld AJ, Owusu-Sarpong S, Dhillon E, Krol O, Kummer NA, Tretiakov P, Imbo B, Joujon-Roche R, Moattari K, Lebovic J, Vira S, Diebo B, Smith JS, Park P, Mummaneni P, Shabani S, Chou D, Lafage R, Lafage V.) Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2022 Jul 15;47(14):995-1002 PMID: 35125457 02/08/2022

• Intraoperative Monitoring for Spinal Surgery.

  (Agarwal N, Shabani S, Huang J, Ben-Natan AR, Mummaneni PV.) Neurol Clin. 2022 May;40(2):269-281 PMID: 35465874 04/26/2022

• Pearls and Pitfalls of Awake Spine Surgery: A Simplified Patient-Selection Algorithm.

  (Letchuman V, Agarwal N, Mummaneni VP, Wang MY, Shabani S, Patel A, Rivera J, Haddad A, Le V, Chang JM, Chou D, Gandhi S, Mummaneni PV.) World Neurosurg. 2022 May;161:154-155 PMID: 35217225 02/27/2022

• Management of Thoracic Disc Pathology via the Lateral Approach: Advances Using the Minimally Invasive Approach and Navigation.

  (Shabani S, Mummaneni PV, Chan A, Huang J, Agarwal N, Deviran V, Chou D.) Int J Spine Surg. 2022 Mar;16(S1):S44-S52 PMID: 35387888 PMCID: PMC9983567 04/08/2022

• Cerebrospinal fluid venous fistula: Illustrative case.

  (Shlobin NA, Shahrestani S, Shabani S, Agarwal N, Tan L.) Surg Neurol Int. 2022;13:374 PMID: 36128164 PMCID: PMC9479572 09/22/2022

• Awake spinal surgery: simplifying the learning curve with a patient selection algorithm.

  (Letchuman V, Agarwal N, Mummaneni VP, Wang MY, Shabani S, Patel A, Rivera J, Haddad AF, Le V, Chang JM, Chou D, Gandhi S, Mummaneni PV.) Neurosurg Focus. 2021 Dec;51(6):E2 PMID: 34852318 12/02/2021

• Intradural view of the spinal cord and dura after three-column osteotomy: illustrative case.

  (Zhao Z, Shabani S, Agarwal N, Mummaneni PV, Chou D.) J Neurosurg Case Lessons. 2021 Nov 08;2(19):CASE21497 PMID: 36061976 PMCID: PMC9435575 09/06/2022

• Diagnostic Imaging in Spinal Cord Injury.

  (Shabani S, Meyer BP, Budde MD, Wang MC.) Neurosurg Clin N Am. 2021 Jul;32(3):323-331 PMID: 34053720 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85105493933 06/01/2021

• The Use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Spine Surgeons in Management of Spinal Trauma Across AO Regions-Results of AO Spine Survey.

  (Kaushal M, Shabani S, Soliman HM, Nguyen HS, Aarabi B, Fehlings MG, Kotter MR, Kwon BK, Harrop JS, Kurpad SN.) World Neurosurg. 2020 May;137:e389-e394 PMID: 32032784 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85081201121 02/08/2020

• Diffusion tensor imaging in cervical spondylotic myelopathy: a review.

  (Shabani S, Kaushal M, Budde MD, Wang MC, Kurpad SN.) J Neurosurg Spine. 2020 Feb 28;33(1):65-72 PMID: 32109862 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85090702776 02/29/2020