Eellan Sivanesan, MD, FASA
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Pain Physician and Director of #Neuromodulation @HopkinsPain. #Neuroscience #CancerResearch with @theNCI. Tweetsโ medical advice
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https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/profiles/details/eellan-sivanesan 23-03-2009 05:26:05
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Original: Tina Doshi Michael Lim, MD and group find biomarkers that predict surgical success to alleviate trigeminal neuralgia โ Differential protein expression in plasma and CSF b/n responders and non-responders Full: jpain.org/article/S1526-โฆ
The Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University is hiring: - 80 early-career faculty in AI - 20 Bloomberg Distinguished Professors in domain-specific AI clusters - 10 targeted AI BDPs - 40 faculty in bioengineering & other engn. disciplines + new large building/HPC
Check out our recent work Nature Immunology highlighting how every pain condition is different, and immune cells might hold the key to these differences. As a cherry on top, our DRG image was chosen as the cover art ๐ P.C. Sara Hakim nature.com/articles/s4159โฆ
I know we get lots of emails from NIH, so it is easy to miss things. Anyone living with, treating or researching #Chronicpain, this is important! Now is the time to provide input on the future of pain research @ the NIH HEAL Initiative. @NIHendaddiction grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/nโฆ
Itโs finally here๐ This multicenter study shows ๐๐ฝTemporary+permanent PNS decreased pain intensity at 3+6+12+24 months postimplant ๐๐ฝNo difference in reduction between temporary vs permanent ๐๐ฝNo change in OME but most pts didnโt use opioid at baseline ๐ย rapm.bmj.com/content/early/โฆ
Radiofrequency denervation of the lumbar facets is the most evidenced procedure for treating facet mediated low back pain. But is it helpful or harmful?๐งต bit.ly/3Su3A6K bit.ly/3SrQuH1 Ryan D'Souza, MD Vinny Francio, MD Zachary McCormick, MD Ameet Nagpal, M.D., M.S., M.Ed., M.B.A.
Jay Karri, MD, MPH Ryan D'Souza, MD Vinny Francio, MD Ameet Nagpal, M.D., M.S., M.Ed., M.B.A. Jay Karri, MD, MPH - terrific and controversial topic. Iโll add that we donโt have any hard evidence (yet?) of medial branch RFA causing multifidus dysfunction or other spinal segmental dysfunction. Atrophy is a radiological (not functional) finding. A core tenant of spine care is
Jay Karri, MD, MPH Ryan D'Souza, MD Vinny Francio, MD Ameet Nagpal, M.D., M.S., M.Ed., M.B.A. that we treat the patient, not the picture. So until we have evidence that the observation of atrophy is clinically significant, itโs tough to argue that medial branch RFA does more harm than goodโฆ particularly given well-established improvements in pain, function, and
Heads up. New PAIN Journal paper from Elizabeth Sypek, PhD and Grรฉgory Scherrer: Diversity of microglial transcriptional responses during... : PAIN journals.lww.com/pain/fulltext/โฆ
The Annual Johns Hopkins ACCM photo shoot- Department, #PedsICU & #PedsAnes (iPhone) photos below. So proud to be a part of this incredible team. โค๏ธ
Hot off the press this morning, data from over 1200 UK spinal cord stimulation patients demonstrates very substantial improvement in quality of life for patients with chronic pain: Neuromodulation Journal Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences NSUKI Society International Neuromodulation Society British Pain Society sciencedirect.com/science/articlโฆ
Happy to share our new editorial in ๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ฆ๐ด๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ด๐ช๐ข: The controversy of pre-operative opioid tapering and an opportunity to advance personalised, patient-centred pain medicine Congrats to my co-authors Drs Dรกire Kelly and Kellie Jaremko ๐๐ฝ โฆ-publications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/anโฆ Key table ๐๐ฝ
Boom! Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) flow extends to peripheral nerves. Alexander Ligocki, Ed Scott and colleagues FLORIDA UF Health blow our minds. New paper Science Advances. What will we call it now? Cerebro-spinal-nerve fluid (CSNF)? or maybe brain-spinal-nerve fluid (BSN)? Just when
