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Specialty:
Board Certification:
Faculty Rank: Assistant Professor
Medical or Graduate Education:
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Residency:
State University of New York at Buffalo - Neurological Surgery
Fellowship:
State University of New York at Buffalo - Endovascular Neurosurgery
Clinical Expertise:
Aneurysms, brain
Angiography, cerebral
Arteriovenous malformations
Carotid endarterectomy and stenting
Coil embolization
Endovascular procedures
Endovascular/vascular neurosurgery
Intracerebral hemorrhage
Magnetic navigation system surgery
Microvascular decompression
Minimally invasive procedures
Pipeline Embolization Device
Stroke
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Vascular surgery
Research Interests:
Minimally invasive treatment of vascular disease
Cerebral aneurysms
Stroke
Arteriovenous malformations
Languages Spoken:
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Below is a list of scientific publications for which this practitioner was either the primary author or a contributor. Citations come from PubMed, a database of biomedical literature, life science journals and online books. PubMed is a service of the US Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. Click on the title of the cited work for more information (this will take you directly to PubMed.gov). Listings go back five years.
Treatment of a ruptured vertebrobasilar fusiform aneurysm using pipeline embolization device. Stent-assisted embolization of 100 middle cerebral artery aneurysms. Solitaire FR Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Stroke: Retrospective Multicenter Analysis of Early Postmarket Experience after FDA Approval. Pipeline for Uncoilable or Failed Aneurysms: Results from a Multicenter Clinical Trial. Stent assisted embolization of 64 anterior communicating artery aneurysms. Intervention for intracranial atherosclerosis after SAMMPRIS. Initial Experience with Neuroform EZ in the Treatment of Wide-neck Cerebral Aneurysms. Venous sinus manometry and intervention using the PrimeWire Prestige pressure guidewire: technique and initial experience. Gender differences in cerebral aneurysm location. Evaluation of cerebral artery perforators and the pipeline embolization device using optical coherence tomography. Should we use stents in subarachnoid hemorrhage? Moyamoya syndrome in an adult with essential thrombocythemia. Transfer delay is a major factor limiting the use of intra-arterial treatment in acute ischemic stroke. Double Wire Technique for Stenting Tortuous Cerebral Vessels. High-Dose Intra-Arterial Nicardipine Results in Hypotension Following Vasospasm Treatment in Subarachnoid Hemorrhage. Erratum. Use of intracranial stenting to secure unstable liquid embolic casts in wide-neck sidewall intracranial aneurysms Onyx embolization of arteriovenous malformations using 2 microcatheters Use of intracranial stenting to secure unstable liquid embolic casts in wide-neck sidewall intracranial aneurysms. Stent remodeling technique for coiling of ruptured wide-neck cerebral aneurysms: case report The utility of quantitative magnetic resonance angiography in the assessment of intracranial in-stent stenosis Video NeuroImage: symptomatic SUNCT syndrome cured after trigeminal neurovascular contact surgical decompression. Histopathologic Description of Wingspan Stent in Acute Ischemic Stroke Hemodynamic Changes Following Wingspan Stent Placement—A Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Angiography Study Defining the risk of retreatment for aneurysm recurrence or residual after initial treatment by endovascular coiling: a multicenter study Does angiographic surveillance pose a risk in the management of coiled intracranial aneurysms? A multicenter study of 2243 patients The "OK" sign: an unusual angiographic appearance of basilar artery fenestration Prevalence and risk factors for aspirin and clopidogrel resistance in cerebrovascular stenting
To watch a brief video of Demetrius K. Lopes, MD, click the play button at the lower left corner of the video frame below. (If you cannot play the video, you may need to update to the latest version of Adobe Flash Player.)
View Transcript I think what Rush has provided to us is the ideal platform of having incredible imaging. So we can see the blood vessels very well, and we can see what we are doing during surgery. So having that technology has just been a revolution.
The key though, at the end of the day, is to have that goal of — you have your technology. You have your options. But it’s how you pick which tools you’re going to use to maximize that efficiency of treatment, but also the ability to minimize the impact of quality of life of the patient, so that they can come in with a very significant medical problem — such as a brain aneurysm, vascular malformation or blockage of a blood vessel in the head, like a stroke for example — and be able to get out of this experience, have your disease treated, cured from that, and return to your life in a short period of time. I think it’s an amazing goal, and that’s what we strive for.
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