Neurology Faculty Highlighted Publications

Agnieszka Ardelt, MD, PhD, MBA  |  View Publications on PubMed

Publications

El Ammar F, Ardelt A, et al., BE-FAST: A sensitive screening tool to identify in-hospital acute ischemic stroke. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. (2020) July; 29 (7)104821. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2020. 104821. 

Loggini A, Ardelt A, et al. Intracranial hemorrhage in hospitalized patients: an infrequently studied condition with high mortality. Neurocrit Care (2020) Mar 24. doi: 10.1007/s12028-020-00946-y. 

Bulwa Z, Del Brutto VJ, Loggini A, Ardelt A, et al. Mechanical thrombectomy for patients with in-hospital ischemic stroke: A case-control study. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. (2020); May;29(5):104692. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2020.104692.

V. J. Del Brutto, A. Ardelt, A. Loggini, Z. Bulwa, F. El-Ammar, R. C. Martinez, J. Brorson, F. Goldenberg, Clinical characteristics and emergent therapeutic interventions in patients evaluated through the in-hospital stroke alert protocol. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis (2019) Mar 4. pii: S1052-3057(19)30045-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2019.02.001.

N. Katyal, C. R. Newey, P. George, P. Nattanamai, J. M. Beary, A. Ardelt, A. Vellipuram, Somatosensory evoked potentials as a tool to evaluate brainstem herniation in the neuroscience intensive care unit. Cureus (2018) Apr 6;10(4): e2443. doi: 10.7759/cureus.2443.

J. Stone, V. Mor-Avi, A. Ardelt, R. M. Lang, Frequency of inverted electrocardiographic T waves (cerebral T waves) in patients with acute strokes and their relation to left ventricular wall motion abnormalities. Am J Cardiol (2018) Jan 1;121(1):120-124. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2017.09.025. Epub 2017 Nov 14.

A. A. Ardelt, R. S. Carpenter, I. Iwuchukwu, A. Zhang, W. Lin, E. Kosciuczuk, C. Hinkson, T. Rebeiz, S. Reitz, P. H. King, Characterization of the transient middle cerebral artery occlusion model of ischemic stroke in a HuR transgenic mouse line. Neurosci Lett Data In Brief (2017) doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.10.033.

A. A. Ardelt, R. S. Carpenter, I. Iwuchukwu, A. Zhang, W. Lin, E. Kosciuczuk, C. Hinkson, T. Rebeiz, S. Reitz, P. H. King, Transgenic expression of HuR increases vasogenic edema and impedes functional recovery in rodent ischemic stroke. Neurosci Lett (2017) Oct 2; 661:126-131. doi: 10.1016/j.neulet.2017.09.062.

R. Dhar, V. Rajajee, A. Finley Caulfield, M. Maas, M. James, A. Bhargava Kumar, S. A. Figueroa, D. McDonagh, A. Ardelt, The state of neurocritical care fellowship training and attitudes toward accreditation and certification: a survey of neurocritical care fellowship program directors. Front Neurol (2017) Nov 3; 8:548. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2017.00548. eCollection 2017.

C. R. Newey, M. Guerch, A. A. Ardelt, G. Pravin, A. Sarwal, P. Nattanmai. Feasibility of performing apnea test in a brain-dead patient on veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO). Am J Hosp Med (2017) 10.24150/ajhm/2017.022. Epub.

C. R. Newey, V. Gupta, A. A. Ardelt, Monitoring pressure augmentation in patients with ischemic penumbra using continuous electroencephalogram: three cases and a review of the literature, Neurohospitalist (2017) Oct;7(4):179-187. doi: 10.1177/1941874417708938. Epub 2017 May 11.

R. Reshi, C. Streib, M. Ezzeddine, M. Biros, B. Miller, K. Lakshminarayan, D. Anderson, A. Ardelt, Hyperglycemia in acute ischemic stroke: Is it time to re-evaluate our understanding? Med Hypotheses (2017) Sep; 107:78-80. doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2017.08.017. Epub 2017 Aug 16.

C. R. Newey, A. Hornik, M. Guerch, A. Vellipuram, S. Yerram, A. A. Ardelt. The Benefit of Neuromuscular Blockade in Patients with Post-Anoxic Myoclonus Otherwise Obscuring Continuous Electroencephalography (CEEG), Crit Care and Pract (2017) 2504058. doi: 10.1155/2017/2504058.

Book Chapters

A. A. Ardelt, Business associations, Laws and Ethics in Neurocritical Care, Szalajdos JE, Wright W, and Smith W, editors, Neurocritical Care Society Press, 2019.

A. A. Ardelt, Care delivery models, Laws and Ethics in Neurocritical Care, Szalajdos JE, Wright W, and Smith W, editors, Neurocritical Care Society Press, 2019. 

A. A. Ardelt, Medical services rationing, Laws and Ethics in Neurocritical Care, Szalajdos JE, Wright W, and Smith W, editors, Neurocritical Care Society Press, 2019. 

A. A. Ardelt, Hospital corporate structure, Laws and Ethics in Neurocritical Care, Szalajdos JE, Wright W, and Smith W, editors, Neurocritical Care Society Press, 2019. 

A. A. Ardelt, Access to neurocritical care, Laws and Ethics in Neurocritical Care, Szalajdos JE, Wright W, and Smith W, editors, Neurocritical Care Society Press, 2019.

A. A. Ardelt, Confusion in the ICU: Anticoagulated VAD patient with MS changes, Difficult Decisions in Cardiothoracic Critical Care Surgery, Lonchyna V, editor, Springer Science+Business Media, New York, NY, 2018. 

A. A. Ardelt and I. Awad, Acute management of subarachnoid hemorrhage, Neurosurgical Emergencies, Loftus C, editor, Thieme Publishers, New York, NY, 2017. 

Danielle Becker, MD, MS  |  View Publications on PubMed

Publications 

Ung H, Czares C, Nanivadekar A, Kini L, Wagenaar J, Becker D, Krieger A, Lucas T, Litt B, Davis KA. (2017). Interictal epileptiform activity outside the seizure onset zone impacts cognition. Brain, 140(8), 2157-2168.

Luna, J, Nizard, M, Becker D, Gerard D, Cruz A, Ratsimbazafy V, Dumas  M, Cruz M,Preux PM.  (2017).  Epilepsy-associated levels of perceived stigma, their implication to treatment and associated factors: a cross-sectional study in urban and rural areas in Ecuador. Epilepsy & Behavior, 68,71-77.

Becker DA, Schiff ND, Becker LB, Holmes MG, Fins JJ, Horowitz JM, Devinsky O. (2016). A major miss in prognostication after cardiac arrest: Burst suppression and brain healing. Epilepsy & Behavior Case Rep, 7:1-5.

Becker DA and Pacia, S. Antiepileptic medications: Principles of Clinical Use. In: Winn HR (Ed.), Youmans and Winn Neurological Surgery, 7th edition. Philadelphia, PA: Elsevier; 2017:396-402.

Shallcross AJ, Becker DA, Singh A, Friedman D, Montesdeoca J, French J, Devinsky O, Spruill TM. (2015).  Illness Perceptions Mediate Relationship Between Depression and Quality of Life in Patients with Epilepsy. Epilepsia, 56(11),186-190.

Shallcross AJ, Becker DA, Singh A, Friedman D, Jurd R, French J, Devinsky O, Spruill TM. (2015). Psychosocial factors associated with medication adherence in ethnically and socioeconomically diverse patients with epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 46, 242-245.

Theodore Bowen, MD  |  View Publications on PubMed

Peer Reviewed Articles 

Boudoulas KD, Bowen T, Pederzolli A, Pfahl K, Pompili VJ, Mazzaferri EL Jr., Duration of intra-aortic balloon pump use and related complications. Acute Card Care. 2014 Jun;16(2):74-7.

Auletta JJ, Eid SK, Wuttisarnwattana P, Silva I, Metheny L, Keller MD, Guardia-Wolff R, Liu C, Wang F, Bowen T, Lee Z, Solchaga LA, Ganguly S, Tyler M, Wilson DL, Cooke KR. Human mesenchymal stromal cells attenuate graft-versus-host disease and maintain graft-versus-leukemia activity following experimental allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Stem Cells. 2015 Feb;33(2):601-14.

Bowen T, Silver S, Sila C. Rapidly Progressive Occlusive Intracranial Vasculopathy in Graft-versus- Host-Disease. Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease. 2019 March.

Poster Presentations

Bowen T, Duncan K, George N, Subei MS, Wang F, Yazdani S, Xiong W, Preston DC. "Mini-Medical School": Patient-centered medical education as a means of enhancing the patient-provider relationship and improving health outcomes. Innovations in Medical Education. Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, Ohio 2019. 

Wright C, Wright J, Bowen T, Dickey T, Selman W. "The Inpatient Shared Medical Appointment: Increasing Patient, Family, and Physician Engagement in Management of Cerebrovascular Disease". ACGME Back to Bedside Initiative 2019. 

Rodica Di Lorenzo, MD  |  View Publications on PubMed

Publications 

Di Lorenzo R, Mente K, Li J, Shayya L, Rae-Grant A, Li Y, Jamoul A  Low specificity of voltage-gated calcium channel antibodies in Lambert–Eaton myasthenic syndrome: a call for caution Journal of Neurology, 2018

Cho SM, Di Lorenzo R, Myles, JL, Uchino K Severe hyperhomocysteinemia manifesting as moyamoya vasculopathy and Henoch-Schonlein purpura Neurology, 2018

Cho SM, Di Lorenzo R, Mathew J, Buletko AB Rare Cause of Horner Syndrome in Loeys-Dietz Syndrome Neurology, 2017

Di Lorenzo R, Ahluwalia M  Targeted therapy of brain metastases: latest evidence and clinical implications Therapeutic Advances in Medical Oncology (accepted, pending publication), 2017

Di Lorenzo R, Li Y Rhabdomyolysis Associated with Levetiracetam Administration Muscle & Nerve, 2016 

Bernatowicz R, Sabharwal N, Bennett E, Ghodsi A, Healy A, Benzel E, Stevens G Case report of an autograft olfactory stem cell transplant for spinal cord injury developing into a persistent spinal mass Poster presentation, Society for Neuro-Oncology Annual Meeting 2016 

Book Chapters

Glioblastoma, Brem S & Abdullah KG, Elsevier, 2016 
Bernatowicz R, Peereboom DM 
Lessons learned: Clinical Trials and Other Interventions for Glioblastoma 

Di Lorenzo R, Donohue MM, Uchino K, Wisco DR, Saqqer M, Hardman J, Hussain MS 
Arterial Recanalization of Large Vessel Occlusion in the Golden Hour of IV tPA Administration for Ischemic Stroke. 
Oral and poster presentation, Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology 2016 
Poster presentation, International Stroke Conference 2016 

Chen Z, Jalabi W, Hu W, Park HJ, Gale JT, Kidd GJ, Bernatowicz R, Gossman ZC, Chen JT, Dutta R, Trapp BD 
Microglial displacement of inhibitory synapses provides neuroprotection in the adult brain. 
Nature communications, 2014

Rae-Grant AD, Wong C, Bernatowicz R, Fox RJ 
Observations on the brain vasculature in multiple sclerosis: A historical perspective. 
Multiple Sclerosis and Related Disorders, 2014

Jonah Grossman, MD  |  View Publications on PubMed

Publications 

Rubin M, Bonomo J, Bar B, Collins E, Cruz-Flores S, Garvin R, Glickman S, Grossman J, Henderson G, Lawson T, Mahanes D, McFarlin J, Monchar S, Peled H, Szalados J. The code of Professional Conduct for the Neurocritical Care Society. Neurocrit Care 2015;23:145-148.

McLaughlin DC, Achey RL, Geertman R, Grossman J. Herpes simplex reactivation following neurosurgery: case report and review of the literature. Neurourg Focus. 2019 Aug 1;47(2):E9. 

Book Chapters

Grossman J.B., Shams T., and Sila C (2016). Neurological Complications of Infective Endocarditis. In “Neurobiology of Disease, 2nd Edition”, edited by M.V. Johnston et al, Oxford University Press, New York, Chapter 167, pp. 1179-1189.

Grossman J, Foreman B. (2018). Periodic EEG Patterns. In “Status Epilepticus: A Clinical Perspective, 2nd Edition”, edited by F.W. Drislane and P.W. Kaplan, Springer, New York, Chapter 5, pp. 43-64.

Ari Wachsman, MD  |  View Publications on PubMed

Publications 

Da Silva IRF, Gomes JA, Wachsman A, de Freitas GR, Provencio JJ. Hematologic counts as predictors of delayed cerebral ischemia after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. J Crit Care. 2017 Feb;37:126-129. doi: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2016.09.011. Epub 2016 Sep 22.

Da Silva IR, Gomes JA, Wachsman A, Rodriguez de Freitas G, Provencio JJ. Effect of Age on Transcranial Doppler Velocities in Patients with Aneurysmal Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Eur Neurol. 2016;76(5-6):261-266. doi: 10.1159/000452273. Epub 2016 Oct 21.

Marc D. Winkelman, MD  |  View Publications on PubMed

Publications

Winkelman MD, Banker BQ, Victor M, Moser HW:  Noninfantile neuronopathic Gaucher disease:  a clinicopathological study. Neurology 33:994 1008, 1983.

Winkelman MD, Hines JD:  Cerebellar degeneration caused by high dose cytosine arabinoside:  a clinicopathologic study. Annals of Neurology 14:520 527, 1983.

Winkelman MD, Glasson C:  Unilateral right cerebral representation of reading in a familial left hander.  Neuropsychologia 22:621 626, 1984.

Costigan, Winkelman MD:  Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis:  a clinicopathologic study of 13 cases.  Journal of Neurosurgery 62:227 233, 1985.

Winkelman MD, Ricanati ES:  Dialysis encephalopathy:  neuropathologic aspects.  Human Pathology 17:823 833, 1986.

Winkelman MD, Adelstein DJ, Karlins NL:  Intramedullary spinal cord metastasis:  diagnostic and therapeutic considerations.  Archives of Neurology 44:526 531, 1987.

McKee AC, Winkelman MD, Banker BQ:  Central pontine myelinolysis in severely burned patients:  relationship to serum hyperosmolality.  Neurology 44:526 531, 1987.

Cole M, Winkelman MD, Morris JC, Simon JE, Boyd TA:  Thalamic amnesia: Korsokoff syndrome due to left thalamic infarction.  Journal of the Neurological Sciences 110:62 67, 1992.

Winkelman MD, Galloway PG:  Central nervous system complications of thermal burns:  a postmortem study of 139 patients.  Medicine 71:271 283, 1992.

Galassi G, Cappelli G, Crisi G, Botticelli AR, Lursvarghi E, Winkelman MD, Lovell MA, Ehmann WD, Markesbery WR:   Neuronal accumulation of aluminum in dialysis encephalopathy:  a laser microprobe study.  Trace Elements and Electrolytes 12:68-72, 1995.

Waggoner B, Kovach MJ, Winkelman M, Cai D, Khardori R, Gelber D, Kimonis VE:  Heterogeneity in familial dominant Paget disease of bone and muscular dystrophy.  American Journal of Medical Genetics 108:187-191, 2002.

Book Chapters

Winkelman MD.  Neurological complications of thermal and electrical burns.  In Aminoff MJ (ed).  Neurology and General Medicine, 2nd Edition.  Churchill Livingstone, New York, 1995.  Revised.  2001, 2008, 2014 

Winkelman MD.  Intramedullary spinal-cord metastatic tumors.  In Greenamyre JT, editor.  Medlink Neurology.  http://www.medlink.com/medlinkcontent.asp. Arbor Publishing: San Diego, 1997.  Revised.  1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Winkelman MD.  Headache. In Loue S, Sajatovic M, editors.  Encylopedia of Women’s Health. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing: New York, 2004.

Winkelman MD. Migraine. In Loue S, Sajatovic M, editors. Encyclopedia of Women’s Health.  Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing: New York, 2004.   

Winkelman MD. Headache in the elderly. In Loue S, Saratovic M, editors. Encyclopedia of Aging and Public Health. Springer: New York, 2008.

Winkelman MD. Frontal lobe dysfunction.  In Loue S, Saratovic M, editors. Encyclopedia of Aging and Public Health. Springer: New York, 2008.