Search Results - "Roca, Andrea M"
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Severe Preoperative Disability Is Associated With Greater Mental Health Improvements Following Surgery for Degenerative Spondylolisthesis: A Cohort Matched Analysis
Published in Neurospine (01-03-2024)“…Objective: To evaluate preoperative disability’s influence on patient-reported outcomes (PROs) following surgery for degenerative spondylolisthesis…”
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Prognostic Value in Preoperative Veterans RAND-12 Mental Component Score on Clinical Outcomes for Patients Undergoing Minimally Invasive Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion
Published in Neurospine (01-03-2024)“…Objective: To evaluate the effect of Veterans RAND 12-item health survey mental composite score (VR-12 MCS) on postoperative patient-reported outcome measures…”
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Antibiotic Use in Spine Surgery: A Narrative Review Based in Principles of Antibiotic Stewardship
Published in North American Spine Society journal (NASSJ) (01-12-2023)“…A growing emphasis on antibiotic stewardship has led to a significant amount of literature regarding antibiotic use in spine surgery for surgical prophylaxis…”
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Risk factors for extended hospital stay following minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion
Published in Journal of clinical neuroscience (01-10-2024)“…•This paper studies preoperative predictors of LOS for patients undergoing MIS-TLIF.•African-Americans were 3.8 times more likely for a LOS ≥ 48 h than…”
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The influence of preoperative 12-item veterans rand physical component scores on outcomes following cervical disc replacement
Published in European spine journal (01-10-2024)“…Purpose To evaluate the influence of preoperative VR-12 physical component scores (PCS) on outcomes following cervical disc replacement (CDR). Methods Patients…”
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Response to the letter to the editor entitled: “Letter: impact of body mass index on PROMIS outcomes following lumbar decompression”
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T-cell receptor V and J usage paired with specific HLA alleles associates with distinct cervical cancer survival rates
Published in Human immunology (01-04-2019)“…Cervical cancer is more strongly associated with a specific virus, Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), in otherwise healthy individuals, than is any other cancer…”
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A scoring system for the electrostatic complementarities of T‐cell receptors and cancer‐mutant amino acids: multi‐cancer analyses of associated survival rates
Published in Immunology (01-04-2020)“…Summary The anti‐tumor immune response is considered to be due to the T‐cell receptor (TCR) binding to tumor antigens, which can be either wild‐type, early…”
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Does Baseline Facet Arthropathy Influence Early Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes After Cervical Disc Replacement?
Published in Neurosurgery (10-06-2024)“…Severe facet arthropathy is generally a contraindication to undergoing cervical disc replacement (CDR) due to associated instability and potentially limited…”
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Predictors of time to achieve clinically significant improvements following lateral lumbar interbody fusion
Published in Journal of clinical neuroscience (01-12-2024)“…•This study evaluates the time it takes LLIF patients to report MCID achievement.•This study evaluates predictors of time to achieve MCID.•Demographics,…”
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Impact of preoperative back pain severity on PROMIS outcomes following minimally invasive lumbar decompression
Published in European spine journal (01-11-2024)“…Purpose To evaluate the effect of baseline back pain severity on PROMIS mental health outcomes following minimally invasive lumbar decompression (LD). Methods…”
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Utility of preoperative comorbidity burden on PROMIS outcomes after lumbar decompression: Cohort matched analysis
Published in Journal of clinical neuroscience (01-03-2024)“…•LD outcomes in the context of CCI have not been thoroughly studied.•Observed PROMIS outcomes were not impacted by greater comorbidity burden.•The lower CCI…”
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Do Six-Week Postoperative Patient-Reported Outcomes Predict Long-Term Clinical Outcomes Following Lumbar Decompression?
Published in World neurosurgery (01-05-2024)“…Little research has been done to evaluate the prognostic value of short-term postoperative patient-reported outcomes (PROs) on long-term PROs following lumbar…”
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Preoperative motor weakness and the impact on patient reported outcomes in lateral lumbar interbody fusion
Published in Journal of clinical neuroscience (01-07-2024)“…•This study finds that the impact of MW on PROMs has no significant differences.•Preoperative MW imparts minimal influence on PROMs in LLIF…”
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Correlation between anxiety, sleep disturbance and clinical outcomes in a lumbar decompression cohort
Published in Journal of clinical neuroscience (01-09-2024)“…•This paper studies correlations between anxiety, SD, and PROMs in LD patients.•Anxiety was positively correlated with SD, depression, back pain, and…”
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The Veterans Rand-12 Physical Composite Score Prognosticates Postoperative Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion
Published in World neurosurgery (01-12-2023)“…To determine prognostic value of preoperative Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey (VR-12) physical composite score (PCS) on outcomes in patients undergoing…”
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Cervical Disk Replacement Versus Anterior Cervical Diskectomy and Fusion: Effect of Procedural Variant on Patients With a Prolonged Preoperative Duration of Symptoms From Disk Herniation
Published in Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (15-06-2024)“…Patients with a prolonged preoperative symptom duration (PSD) in the setting of cervical disk herniation (DH) may suffer inferior outcomes after surgical…”
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Effect of baseline veterans RAND-12 physical composite score on postoperative patient-reported outcome measures following lateral lumbar interbody fusion
Published in Acta neurochirurgica (01-11-2023)“…Purpose To determine the prognostic value of preoperative Veterans RAND-12 (VR-12) Physical Composite Score (PCS) scores on postoperative clinical outcomes in…”
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Prognostic value in preoperative Veterans RAND-12 mental Component score on clinical outcomes for patients undergoing minimally invasive transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion
Published in Journal of clinical neuroscience (01-07-2024)“…•This study evaluates the prognostic value of VR-12 MCS on MIS-TLIF outcomes.•VR-12 MCS < 50 reported significantly inferior scores in all PROMs…”
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The influence of preoperative Veterans RAND-12 physical composite score in patients undergoing anterior lumbar interbody fusion [Retrospective Review]
Published in Journal of clinical neuroscience (01-05-2024)“…•VR-12 PCS < 30 reported worse baseline mental and physical health and disability.•VR-12 PCS < 30 report greater postoperative improvements in mental/physical…”
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