Physician
Neurosurgery
Dr. Alex B. Valadka, MD
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Alex Valadka practices Neurosurgery. He researched medicine at University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is ranked 10/19 in Research/PrimaryCare. He over the years received 1 awards: "Fellow (FACS)". Alex Valadka is also a published MD. He has 89 paper published. The most recent paper is: Relationship of brain tissue PO2 to outcome after severe head injury.
Publications
- COMT Val (158) Met polymorphism is associated with nonverbal cognition following mild traumatic Brain injury.
- Plasma Anti-Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) Autoantibody Levels During the Acute and Chronic Phases of Traumatic Brain Injury - A TRACK-TBI Pilot Study.
- Neurosurgeons' Critical Role in Managing Traumatic Brain Injury.
- Genetic Data Sharing and Privacy.
- Measurement of the GFAP-BDP Biomarker for the Detection of Traumatic Brain Injury Compared to CT and MRI.
- Predictors of outcome in civilians with gunshot wounds to the head upon presentation.
- Outcome Prediction After Mild and Complicated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: External Validation of Existing Models and Identification of New Predictors Using the TRACK-...
- ED disposition of the Glasgow Coma Scale 13 to 15 traumatic Brain injury patient: analysis of the Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in TBI study.
- Diffusion Tensor Imaging for Outcome Prediction in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A TRACK-TBI Study.
- Progress in Developing Common Data Elements for Traumatic Brain Injury Research: Version Two- The End of the Beginning.
- Symptomatology and Functional Outcome in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Results from the prospective TRACK-TBI Study.
- The Impact of Prior Traumatic Brain Injury on Health and Functioning: A TRACK-TBI study.
- Acute biomarkers of traumatic Brain injury: Relationship between plasma levels of ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP).
- Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury (TRACK-TBI) Pilot: Multicenter Implementation of the Common Data Elements for Traumatic Brain In...
- Neurological Outcome Scale for Traumatic Brain Injury (NOS-TBI): III. Criterion-Related Validity and Sensitivity to Change in the NABIS Hypothermia-II Clinical Trial.
- GFAP-BDP as an Acute Diagnostic Marker in Traumatic Brain Injury: Results from the prospective TRACK-TBI Study.
- Magnetic resonance imaging improves 3-month outcome prediction in mild traumatic Brain injury.
- Early induction of hypothermia for evacuated intracranial hematomas: a post hoc analysis of two clinical trials.
- Preventing Recurrence of Chronic Subdural Hematomas.
- Variants of the endothelial nitric oxide gene and cerebral blood flow after severe traumatic Brain injury.
- Feasibility of the Neurological Outcome Scale for Traumatic Brain Injury (NOS-TBI) in adults.
- alphaII-Spectrin breakdown product cerebrospinal fluid exposure metrics suggest differences in cellular injury mechanisms after severe traumatic Brain injury.
- Guidelines for the prevention of infection after combat-related injuries.
- Prevention and management of infections associated with combat-related central Nervous system injuries.
- Brain tissue oxygen tension response to induced hyperoxia reduced in hypoperfused Brain.
- Evolution of Brain tissue injury after evacuation of acute traumatic subdural hematomas.
- Surgery of Cerebral trauma and associated critical care.
- Acute care surgery: challenges and opportunities from the neurosurgical perspective.
- Clinical significance of alphaII-spectrin breakdown products in cerebrospinal fluid after severe traumatic Brain injury.
- Fact and fiction of emergency surgical care in America: a neurosurgical perspective.
- Delivery of emergency neurosurgical care.
- Analysis of dynamic autoregulation assessed by the cuff deflation method.
- Brain injury management: quo vadis?
- Intracranial Pressure response to induced hypertension: role of dynamic Pressure autoregulation.
- Patterns of energy substrates during ischemia measured in the Brain by microdialysis.
- Significance of a reduced cerebral blood flow during the first 12 hours after traumatic Brain injury.
- Role of nitric oxide in cerebral blood flow abnormalities after traumatic Brain injury.
- Intracranial hypertension and cerebral ischemia after severe traumatic Brain injury.
- Comparison of cerebral blood flow in computed tomographic hypodense areas of the Brain in head-injured patients.
- The neurosurgeon as an intensivist.
- Dynamic autoregulatory response after severe head injury.
- Organ donation rates in a neurosurgical intensive care unit.
- Cerebral hemodynamic effects of acute hyperoxia and hyperventilation after severe traumatic Brain injury.
- L-arginine reactivity in cerebral vessels after severe traumatic Brain injury.
- Common data elements for traumatic Brain injury: recommendations from the interagency working group on demographics and clinical assessment.
- Standardizing data collection in traumatic Brain injury.
- Very early hypothermia induction in patients with severe Brain injury (the National Acute Brain Injury Study: Hypothermia II): a randomised trial.
- Multicenter trial of early hypothermia in severe Brain injury.
- Classification of traumatic Brain injury for targeted therapies.
- Identification of serum biomarkers in Brain-injured adults: potential for predicting elevated intracranial pressure.
- Community consultation in emergency research.
- Global and regional techniques for monitoring cerebral oxidative metabolism after severe traumatic Brain injury.
- Management of Cerebral perfusion pressure.
- Updated management strategy for patients with Cervical osteophytic dysphagia.
- The use of antibodies targeted against the neurofilament subunits for the detection of diffuse axonal injury in humans.
- SjvO2 monitoring in head-injured patients.
- Surgical management of patients with severe head injuries.
- Lactic acid and amino acid fluctuations measured using microdialysis reflect physiological derangements in head injury.
- Intraoperative jugular desaturation during surgery for Traumatic intracranial hematomas.
- Lactate and excitatory amino acids measured by microdialysis are decreased by pentobarbital coma in head-injured patients.
- Brain temperature exceeds systemic temperature in head-injured patients.
- Metabolic changes in the Brain during transient ischemia measured with microdialysis.
- Radiation therapy and malignant degeneration of benign supratentorial ganglioGliomas.
- Comparison of Brain tissue oxygen tension to microdialysis-based measures of cerebral ischemia in fatally head-injured humans.
- Relationship of Brain tissue PO2 to outcome after severe head injury.
- Prognostic factors in supratentorial ganglioglioma.
- Elevated jugular venous oxygen saturation after severe head injury.
- Extracellular lactate and glucose alterations in the Brain after head injury measured by microdialysis.
- Cerebral hemodynamic effects of pentobarbital coma in head-injured patients.
- Prevention of Secondary ischemic insults after severe head injury.
- Comparison of jugular venous oxygen saturation and Brain tissue Po2 as monitors of cerebral ischemia after head injury.
- Simultaneous measurement of cortical potassium, calcium, and magnesium levels measured in head injured patients using microdialysis with ion chromatography.
- Similarities between civilian gunshot wounds to the head and nongunshot head injuries.
- Should we be using hypertonic saline to treat intracranial hypertension?
- Midline shift after severe head injury: pathophysiologic implications.
- How well do neurosurgeons care for trauma patients? A survey of the membership of the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
- Resident curriculum guidelines for neurosurgery. Congress of Neurological Surgeons Education Committee.
- Subarachnoid-pleural fistula treated with noninvasive positive-Pressure ventilation. Case report.
- Extracellular glutamate and aspartate in head injured patients.
- Pathologic quiz case: a 48 year-old woman with a dural-based intracranial tumor.
- The use of a survey to quantify the community's perceptions about neurosurgeons' involvement in trauma.
- Adult respiratory distress Syndrome: a complication of induced hypertension after severe head injury.
- An algorithm for management of residual postTraumatic calvarial defects in adults.
- The association between neuronal nitric oxide synthase and neuronal sensitivity in the Brain after Brain injury.
- Brain tissue PO2: correlation with cerebral blood flow.
- Microdialysate nitrate/nitrite levels following severe head injury.
- Measurement of the nitric oxide metabolites nitrate and nitrite in the human Brain by microdialysis.
- Comparison of microdialysate arginine and glutamate levels in severely head-injured patient.
Schools
U Of Chgo Div Of Bio Sci Pritzker Sch Of Med
Procedures Preformed
- Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
- Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
- Dural Repair or Other Spinal Spinal Cord Repair
- Herniated Disc Surgery
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Conditions Treated
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Aneurysm
- Brain Cancer
- Cerebral Artery Thrombosis
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
Education
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Virginia Commonwealth University Health System -
University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine
Hospital
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Seton Medical Center Austin -
University Medical Center at Brackenridge
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1881633709 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | VALADKA |
| First Name Of The Provider | ALEX |
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