Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Neurosurgery
Dr. David O. Okonkwo, MD
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David O. Okonkwo is an expert in the field of Neurosurgery. He attended Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. David O. Okonkwo, MD has written publications. He has 101 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Alteration of the neurofilament sidearm and its relation to neurofilament compaction occurring with traumatic axonal injury.' He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- A prospective, multi-center clinical and radiographic outcomes evaluation of ChronOS strip for lumbar Spine fusion.
- Can a Minimal Clinically Important Difference Be Achieved in Elderly Patients with Adult Spinal Deformity Who Undergo Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery?
- A Review of Minimally Invasive Procedures for the Treatment of Adult Spinal Deformity.
- Reoperation rates in minimally invasive, hybrid and open surgical treatment for adult spinal Deformity with minimum 2-year follow-up.
- A Consensus-Based Interpretation of the Benchmark Evidence from South American Trials: Treatment of IntraCranial Pressure Trial.
- Plasma Anti-Glial Fibrillary Acidic Protein (GFAP) Autoantibody Levels During the Acute and Chronic Phases of Traumatic Brain Injury - A TRACK-TBI Pilot Study.
- COMT Val (158) Met polymorphism is associated with nonverbal cognition following mild traumatic Brain injury.
- Stand-alone minimally invasive lateral Lumbar interbody fusion: Multicenter clinical outcomes.
- Prealbumin as a serum biomarker of impaired perioperative nutritional status and risk for surgical site infection after Spine surgery.
- Impaired bone mineral density as a predictor of graft subsidence following minimally invasive transpsoas lateral Lumbar interbody fusion.
- Quantifying white matter structural integrity with high-definition fiber tracking in traumatic Brain injury.
- A high-definition fiber tracking report for patients with traumatic Brain injury and their doctors.
- Vertebral body Fracture following stand-alone lateral lumbar interbody fusion (LLIF): report of two events out of 712 levels.
- Technical nuances of the minimally invasive extreme lateral approach to treat thoracolumbar burst Fractures.
- Association of a common genetic variant within ANKK1 with six-month cognitive performance after traumatic Brain injury.
- Comparison of two minimally invasive surgery strategies to treat adult spinal Deformity.
- Surgical management of traumatic Brain injury: a review of guidelines, pathophysiology, neurophysiology, outcomes, and controversies.
- A Multi-Center Evaluation of Clinical and Radiographic Outcomes Following High-Grade Spondylolisthesis Reduction and Fusion.
- Genetic Data Sharing and Privacy.
- Sideline assessment tools for the evaluation of concussion in athletes: a review.
- Measurement of the GFAP-BDP Biomarker for the Detection of Traumatic Brain Injury Compared to CT and MRI.
- Inverse neurovascular coupling to cortical spreading depolarizations in severe Brain trauma.
- Neurostimulation for traumatic Brain injury.
- Outcome Prediction After Mild and Complicated Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: External Validation of Existing Models and Identification of New Predictors Using the TRACK-...
- Radiographic and clinical outcomes following combined lateral lumbar interbody fusion and posterior segmental stabilization in patients with adult Degenerative scoliosis.
- Less invasive surgery for treating adult spinal deformities: ceiling effects for Deformity correction with 3 different techniques.
- Comparison of radiographic results after minimally invasive, hybrid, and open surgery for adult spinal Deformity: a multicenter study of 184 patients.
- Complications in adult spinal Deformity surgery: an analysis of minimally invasive, hybrid, and open surgical techniques.
- The minimally invasive spinal Deformity surgery algorithm: a reproducible rational framework for decision making in minimally invasive spinal Deformity surgery.
- 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.
- Neurological Outcome Scale for Traumatic Brain Injury (NOS-TBI): III. Criterion-Related Validity and Sensitivity to Change in the NABIS Hypothermia-II Clinical Trial.
- The Impact of Prior Traumatic Brain Injury on Health and Functioning: A TRACK-TBI study.
- Intermittent Versus Continuous Cerebrospinal Fluid Drainage Management in Adult Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Assessment of Intracranial Pressure Burden.
- Symptomatology and Functional Outcome in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Results from the prospective TRACK-TBI Study.
- Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury (TRACK-TBI) Pilot: Multicenter Implementation of the Common Data Elements for Traumatic Brain In...
- Acute biomarkers of traumatic Brain injury: Relationship between plasma levels of ubiquitin C-terminal hydrolase-L1 (UCH-L1) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP).
- Mitochondrial Polymorphisms Impact Outcomes after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.
- Influence of ATP-Binding Cassette Polymorphisms on Neurological Outcome After Traumatic Brain Injury.
- 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.
- Lipidomics identifies cardiolipin oxidation as a mitochondrial target for redox therapy of Brain injury.
- Perioperative surgical complications of transforaminal Lumbar interbody fusion: a single-center experience.
- Prospective Independent Validation of IMPACT Modeling as a Prognostic Tool in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.
- Comparative effectiveness of using computed tomography alone to exclude Cervical spine injuries in obtunded or intubated patients: meta-analysis of 14,327 patients wit...
- Fractures of the clivus and traumatic diastasis of the central skull base in the pediatric population.
- Premorbid oral antithrombotic therapy and risk for reaccumulation, reoperation, and mortality in acute subdural hematomas.
- Predictors of complications after spinal stabilization of thoracolumbar Spine injuries.
- Protection against focal ischemic injury to the Brain by trans-sodium crocetinate. Laboratory investigation.
- Surgical management of post-Traumatic syringomyelia.
- Translational Systems biology of inflammation: potential applications to personalized medicine.
- BCL2 genotypes: functional and neurobehavioral outcomes after severe traumatic Brain injury.
- Neuroglobin genetic polymorphisms and their relationship to functional outcomes after traumatic Brain injury.
- Influence of PARP-1 polymorphisms in patients after traumatic Brain injury.
- Flumazenil administration attenuates cognitive impairment in immature rats after controlled cortical impact.
- Introduction: Adult spinal Deformity.
- Intraoperative computed tomography image-guided navigation for posterior thoracolumbar spinal instrumentation in spinal Deformity surgery.
- Complications and radiographic correction in adult Scoliosis following combined transpsoas extreme lateral interbody fusion and posterior pedicle screw instrumentation.
- Thromboprophylaxis in traumatic and elective spinal surgery: analysis of questionnaire response and current practice of Spine trauma surgeons.
- Fractures of the clivus: a contemporary series in the computed tomography era.
- Thoracolumbar spinal Deformity: Part I. A historical passage to 1990: historical vignette.
- Thoracolumbar spinal Deformity: Part II. Developments from 1990 to today: historical vignette.
- Occipital condyle Fractures: clinical decision rule and surgical management.
- Minimal-access technique for distal catheter insertion during ventricular peritoneal shunt procedures: a review of 100 cases.
- Effect of short periods of normobaric hyperoxia on local Brain tissue oxygenation and cerebrospinal fluid oxidative stress markers in severe traumatic Brain injury.
- Reversal of sedation with flumazenil in a child after traumatic Brain injury.
- Induced normothermia attenuates intracranial hypertension and reduces fever burden after severe traumatic Brain injury.
- Introduction: traumatic Brain injury.
- Levetiracetam versus phenytoin for seizure prophylaxis in severe traumatic Brain injury.
- Cerebral pressure autoregulation in traumatic Brain injury.
- Long-term outcomes and prognostic factors in pediatric patients with severe traumatic Brain injury and elevated intracranial pressure.
- MRI is unnecessary to clear the Cervical spine in obtunded/comatose trauma patients: the four-year experience of a level I trauma center.
- Early adenosine receptor activation ameliorates spinal cord reperfusion Injury.
- Reconstruction of the sellar dura in transsphenoidal surgery using an expanded polytetrafluoroethylene dural substitute.
- Arachnoid diverticula associated with anterior Cranial base tumors: technical case report.
- Outcome following decompressive craniectomy in children with severe traumatic Brain injury: a 10-year single-center experience with long-term follow up.
- Functional and cytoarchitectural Spinal cord protection by ATL-146e after ischemia/reperfusion is mediated by adenosine receptor agonism.
- A comparison of adenosine A2A agonism and methylprednisolone in attenuating neuronal damage and improving functional outcome after experimental Traumatic spinal cord i...
- Single-center experience with pediatric Cushing's Disease.
- Surgical management of adrenocorticotropic hormone-secreting macroadenomas: outcome and challenges in patients with Cushing's Disease or Nelson's syndrome.
- The evolution of ischemic spinal cord Injury in function, cytoarchitecture, and inflammation and the effects of adenosine A2A receptor activation.
- Impaired axonal transport and altered axolemmal permeability occur in distinct populations of damaged axons following traumatic Brain injury.
- Adenosine A2A analogue reduces long-term neurologic Injury after blunt spinal trauma.
- Clinical characteristics of silent corticotrophic adenomas and creation of an internet-accessible database to facilitate their multi-institutional study.
- Basic science of closed head injuries and Spinal cord injuries.
- Illuminating protein interactions in tissue using confocal and two-photon excitation fluorescent resonance energy transfer microscopy.
- Caspase-3-mediated cleavage of amyloid precursor protein and formation of amyloid Beta peptide in traumatic axonal Injury.
- Acute spinal cord Injury, part II: contemporary pharmacotherapy.
- Acute spinal cord Injury, part I: pathophysiologic mechanisms.
- The immunophilin ligand FK506 attenuates axonal injury in an impact-acceleration model of traumatic Brain injury.
- Cytochrome c release and caspase activation in traumatic axonal Injury.
- Initiating mechanisms involved in the pathobiology of traumatically induced axonal Injury and interventions targeted at blunting their progression.
- Postinjury cyclosporin A administration limits axonal damage and disconnection in traumatic Brain injury.
- Cyclosporin A limits calcium-induced axonal damage following traumatic Brain injury.
- An intrathecal bolus of cyclosporin A before injury preserves mitochondrial integrity and attenuates axonal disruption in traumatic Brain injury.
- Alteration of the neurofilament sidearm and its relation to neurofilament compaction occurring with traumatic axonal Injury.
- Structural interactions between NOS-positive neurons and blood vessels in the hippocampus.
- Trans-sodium crocetinate increases oxygen delivery to Brain parenchyma in rats on oxygen supplementation.
- Comparison of Systemic and retrograde delivery of adenosine A2A agonist for attenuation of spinal cord injury after thoracic aortic cross-clamping.
- Multicenter trial of early hypothermia in severe Brain injury.
Procedures Preformed
- CerebroSpinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
- Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Dural Repair or Other Spinal Spinal Cord Repair
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Conditions Treated
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Aneurysm
- Brain Cancer
- Brain Injury
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
Education
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University of Virginia -
Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Hospital
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UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1447204854 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | OKONKWO | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | DAVID | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 152132546 | |
| NPPES Provider State | PA | |
| Specialty Description | Neurosurgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 222.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 2.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 62.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 27.93 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1447204854 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | OKONKWO |
| First Name Of The Provider | DAVID |
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