Selected Publications
Punchak MA, Agarwal AK, Joshi D, Xiong R, Malhotra NR, Marcotte PJ, Ozturk A, Petrov D, Schuster J, Welch W, Delgado MK, Ali Z.: Understanding the Natural History of Postoperative Pain and Patient-Reported Opioid Consumption After Elective Spine and Nerve Surgeries With an Automated Text Messaging System. Neurosurgery 1;90 (3): 329-339,2022.
Wakim J, Rajan T, Beschloss A, Albayar A, Ozturk A, Saifi C.: Etiologies, incidence, and demographics of lumbar vertebral fractures in U.S. emergency departments. J Spine Surg. 8 (1): 21-28,2022.
Farooqi AS, Borja AJ, Ajmera S, Glauser G, Strouz K, Ozturk AK, Petrov D, Chen HI, McClintock SD, Malhotra NR.: Matched Analysis of the Risk Assessment and Prediction Tool (RAPT) for Discharge Planning Following Single-Level Posterior Lumbar Fusion. World Neurosurg ahead of print : 2022.
Zavras AG, Schoenfeld AJ, Patt JC, Munim MA, Goodwin CR, Goodwin ML, Lo SL, Redmond KJ, Tobert DG, Shin JH, Ferrone ML, Laufer I, Saifi C, Buchowski JM, Jennings JW, Ozturk AK, Huang-Wright C, Mesfin A, Steyn C, Hsu W, Soliman HM, Krishnaney AA, Sciubba DM, Schwab JH, Colman MW.: Attitudes and trends in the use of radiolucent spinal implants: A survey of the North American Spine Society section of spinal oncology. N Am Spine Soc J. 23 (10): 2022.
Barak T, Ristori E, Ercan-Sencicek AG, Miyagishima DF, Nelson-Williams C, Dong W, Jin SC, Prendergast A, Armero W, Henegariu O, Erson-Omay EZ, Harmancı AS, Guy M, Gültekin B, Kilic D, Rai DK, Goc N, Aguilera SM, Gülez B, Altinok S, Ozcan K, Yarman Y, Coskun S, Sempou E, Deniz E, Hintzen J, Cox A, Fomchenko E, Jung SW, Ozturk AK, Louvi A, Bilgüvar K, Connolly ES Jr, Khokha MK, Kahle KT, Yasuno K, Lifton RP, Mishra-Gorur K, Nicoli S, Günel M.: PPIL4 is essential for brain angiogenesis and implicated in intracranial aneurysms in humans. Nature Medicine 27 (12): 2165-2175,2021.
Albayar A, Ramayya A, Sullivan PZ, Yoon J, Saifi C, Roche A, Ali ZS, Welch WC, Arlet V, Ozturk AK.: Postoperative Sagittal Spinal Alignment Changes Following Corrective Surgery in Adult Spinal Deformity. Int J Spine Surg. 15 (6): 1082-1089,2021.
Patricia Zadnik Sullivan, Ahmed Albayar, Justin C Burrell, Kevin Browne, John Arena, Victoria Johnson, Douglas H Smith, D Kacy Cullen, Ali K Ozturk: Implantation Of Engineered Axon Tracts To Bridge Spinal Cord Injury Beyond The Glial Scar In Rats Tissue Eng Part A 19-20 : 1264-1274,2021.
Beschloss A, Dicindio C, Lombardi J, Varthi A, Ozturk A, Lehman R, Lenke L, Saifi C.: Marked Increase in Spinal Deformity Surgery Throughout the United States. Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 46 (20): 1402-1408,2021.
Susanna Davis Howard, Anish Agarwal, Kit Delgado, Edward Rodriguez-Caceres, Disha Joshi, Paul Marcotte, Ali Ozturk, Dmitriy Petrov, James Schuster, William Welch, Neil Malhotra, Zarina Ali: Opioid disposal rates after spine surgery Surg Neurol Int 12 : 472,2021.
Beschloss A, Ishmael T, Dicindio C, Hendow C, Ha A, Louie P, Lombardi J, Pugely A, Ozturk A, Arlet V, Saifi C.: The Expanding Frontier of Outpatient Spine Surgery. Int J Spine Surg 15 (2): 266-273,2021.
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