Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Rush Medical College
Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr. Howard S. An, MD
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Howard works in the field of Orthopaedic Surgery. He researched medicine at Medical College of Ohio at Toledo. He received 4 awards: "Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors", "America's Top Doctors", "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification" and "Super Doctor". Howard S. An, MD is a published doctor. He published 98 publications, including: 'Biglycan Inhibits Capsaicin-Induced Substance P Release by Cultured Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons.' Howard is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- Biglycan Inhibits Capsaicin-Induced Substance P Release by Cultured Dorsal Root Ganglion Neurons.
- Rho-Associated Kinase Inhibitor Immortalizes Rat Nucleus Pulposus and Annulus Fibrosus Cells: Establishment of Intervertebral Disc Cell Lines With Novel Approaches.
- Fusion in Degenerative spondylolisthesis: comparison of osteoconductive and osteoinductive bone graft substitutes.
- Fibronectin Splice Variation in Human Knee Cartilage, Meniscus and Synovial Membrane: Observations in Osteoarthritic Knee.
- MicroRNA-146a reduces IL-1 dependent inflammatory responses in the intervertebral Disc.
- Fibronectin Fragments and the Cleaving Enzyme ADAM-8 in the Degenerative Human Intervertebral Disc.
- In Vivo Three-Dimensional Morphometric Analysis of the Lumbar Foramen in Healthy Subjects.
- Histological features of endplates of the mammalian Spine: from mice to men.
- Complications with the use of bone morphogenetic protein 2 (BMP-2) in Spine surgery.
- Relationship between biomechanical changes at adjacent segments and number of fused bone grafts in multilevel Cervical fusions: a finite element investigation.
- Cytotoxicity of local anesthetics and nonionic contrast agents on bovine intervertebral Disc cells cultured in a three-dimensional culture system.
- Damage accumulation location under cyclic loading in the lumbar Disc shifts from inner annulus lamellae to peripheral annulus with increasing Disc degeneration.
- A Biomechanical Comparison of Intralaminar C7 Screw Constructs with and without Offset Connector Used for C6-7 Cervical Spine Immobilization : A Finite Element Study.
- Human umbilical cord blood-derived mesenchymal stem cells in the cultured rabbit intervertebral Disc: a novel cell source for Disc repair.
- Lactoferricin enhances BMP7-stimulated anabolic pathways in intervertebral Disc cells.
- Biomechanics of adjacent segments after a multilevel Cervical corpectomy using anterior, posterior, and combined anterior-posterior instrumentation techniques: a finit...
- Fibroblast growth factor control of cartilage homeostasis.
- Lactoferricin mediates anti-inflammatory and anti-catabolic effects via inhibition of IL-1 and LPS activity in the intervertebral Disc.
- Retroperitoneal approach to the intervertebral Disc for the annular puncture model of intervertebral Disc degeneration in the rabbit.
- Improving the Clinical Evidence of Bone Graft Substitute Technology in Lumbar Spine Surgery.
- Commentary: Total Disc arthroplasty and the bearing surface debate.
- Initiation and progression of mechanical damage in the intervertebral Disc under cyclic loading using continuum damage mechanics methodology: A finite element study.
- Toll-like receptor adaptor signaling molecule MyD88 on Intervertebral disk homeostasis: In vitro, ex vivo studies.
- Posterior Facet Load Changes in Adjacent Segments due to Moderate and Severe Degeneration in C5-C6 Disc: A Poroelastic C3-T1 Finite Element Model Study.
- In Vivo Topographic Analysis of Lumbar Facet Joint Space Width Distribution in Healthy and Symptomatic Subjects.
- Factors affecting reoperations after anterior Cervical discectomy and fusion within and outside of a Federal Drug Administration investigational device exemption cervi...
- C1-C2 posterior fixation: indications, technique, and results.
- Biomechanical Comparison of Occiput-C1-C2 Fixation Techniques: C0-C1 Transarticular Screw and Direct Occiput Condyle Screw.
- The pathophysiological role of the PKC? pathway in the intervertebral Disc: In vitro, ex vivo and in vivo studies.
- The rat intervertebral disc degeneration Pain model: relationship among biological and structural alterations and Pain.
- Progressive Disc degeneration at C5-C6 segment affects the mechanics between Disc heights and posterior facets above and below the degenerated segment: A flexion-exten...
- Biologic repair and regeneration of the Intervertebral disk.
- Lactoferricin mediates anabolic and anti-catabolic effects in the intervertebral Disc.
- Intervertebral disk repair by protein, gene, or cell injection: a framework for rehabilitation-focused biologics in the Spine.
- Biomechanical effects of anterior, posterior, and combined anterior-posterior instrumentation techniques on the stability of a multilevel Cervical corpectomy construct...
- Biomechanical effect of the C2 laminar decortication on the stability of C2 intralaminar screw construct and Biomechanical comparison of C2 intralaminar screw and C2 p...
- Biomechanical comparison of three different types of C7 fixation techniques.
- Simulation of inhomogeneous rather than homogeneous poroelastic tissue material properties within disc annulus and nucleus better predicts Cervical spine response: a C...
- Histological features of the degenerating intervertebral Disc in a goat Disc-injury model.
- Insulin-like growth factor 1 synergizes with bone morphogenetic protein 7-mediated anabolism in bovine intervertebral Disc cells.
- Reduction in segmental flexibility because of Disc degeneration is accompanied by higher changes in facet loads than changes in Disc pressure: a poroelastic C5-C6 fini...
- Three-dimensional morphology and kinematics of the craniovertebral junction in rheumatoid arthritis.
- Spinal kinematics and facet load transmission after total Disc replacement.
- Biomechanical Comparison of Three Different Types of C7 Fixation Techniques: Lateral Mass Screw, Transpedicular Screw, and Intralaminar Screw.
- Patterns of height changes in anterior and posterior Cervical disc regions affects the contact loading at posterior facets during moderate and severe disc degeneration...
- Fibronectin splicing variants in human intervertebral Disc and association with Disc degeneration.
- The relationship of intrapsoas nerves during a transpsoas approach to the lumbar Spine: anatomic study.
- Motion changes in adjacent segments due to moderate and severe degeneration in C5-C6 Disc: a poroelastic C3-T1 finite element model study.
- In vivo measurement of lumbar facet joint area in asymptomatic and chronic low Back pain subjects.
- Does multilevel lumbar stenosis lead to poorer outcomes?: a subanalysis of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) lumbar stenosis study.
- Screw angulation affects bone-screw stresses and bone graft load sharing in anterior Cervical corpectomy fusion with a rigid screw-plate construct: a finite element mo...
- In vivo three-dimensional morphometric analysis of the lumbar pedicle isthmus.
- En bloc spondylectomy for the treatment of spinal tuberculosis with fixed and sharply angulated kyphotic deformity.
- Making ethical decisions in current orthopedic practice.
- Primary bovine intervertebral Disc cells transduced with adenovirus overexpressing 12 BMPs and Sox9 maintain appropriate phenotype.
- Notochordal cells stimulate migration of cartilage end plate chondrocytes of the intervertebral Disc in in vitro cell migration assays.
- Age-related changes in the extracellular matrix of nucleus pulposus and anulus fibrosus of human intervertebral Disc.
- Problems related to Cervical fusion: malalignment and nonunion.
- Spine patient outcomes research trial: radiographic predictors of clinical outcomes after operative or nonoperative treatment of degenerative spondylolisthesis.
- The action of resveratrol, a phytoestrogen found in grapes, on the intervertebral Disc.
- Anatomical variations of the vertebral artery segment in the lower Cervical spine: analysis by three-dimensional computed tomography angiography.
- Biological treatment for degenerative disc Disease: implications for the field of physical medicine and rehabilitation.
- New options in Spine surgery--judgment is as important as ever.
- Vertebroplasty comparing injectable Calcium phosphate cement compared with polymethylmethacrylate in a unique canine vertebral body large defect model.
- Cell therapy using articular chondrocytes overexpressing BMP-7 or BMP-10 in a rabbit Disc organ culture model.
- Orthopedic surgeon in the ER: the importance of remembering the basics.
- Cervical kyphosis and thoracic lordoscoliosis in a patient with cerebral palsy.
- Effect of osteogenic protein-1 on the matrix metabolism of bovine tendon cells.
- Comparative effects of bone morphogenetic proteins and Sox9 overexpression on matrix accumulation by bovine anulus fibrosus cells: implications for anular repair.
- Aggrecanases and aggrecanase-generated fragments in the human intervertebral Disc at early and advanced stages of Disc degeneration.
- The apoptotic effects of oxidative stress and antiapoptotic effects of caspase inhibitors on rat notochordal cells.
- Characterization of graft subsidence in anterior Cervical discectomy and fusion with rigid anterior plate fixation.
- In vivo measurements of lumbar segmental motion during axial rotation in asymptomatic and chronic low Back pain male subjects.
- Recombinant human osteogenic protein-1 upregulates proteoglycan metabolism of human anulus fibrosus and nucleus pulposus cells.
- Restoration of Disc height loss by recombinant human osteogenic protein-1 injection into intervertebral Discs undergoing degeneration induced by an intraDiscal injecti...
- Axonal growth potential of lumbar dorsal root ganglion neurons in an organ culture system: response of Nerve growth factor-sensitive neurons to neuronal injury and an ...
- Proinflammatory cytokines stimulate the expression of nerve growth factor by human intervertebral Disc cells.
- The expression of NG2 proteoglycan in the human intervertebral Disc.
- Novel model to analyze the effect of a large compressive follower pre-load on range of motions in a lumbar Spine.
- Mechanical neck Pain and cervicogenic headache.
- Effects of growth differentiation factor-5 on the intervertebral Disc--in vitro bovine study and in vivo rabbit Disc degeneration model study.
- Sensory neurons and fibers from multiple spinal cord levels innervate the rabbit lumbar Disc.
- IntraDiscal injections of osteogenic protein-1 restore the viscoelastic properties of degenerated intervertebral Discs.
- Comparative effects of bone morphogenetic proteins and sox9 overexpression on extracellular matrix metabolism of bovine nucleus pulposus cells.
- Artificial Disc replacement: progress or hype?
- Motion preservation technologies: alternatives to spinal fusion.
- Three-dimensional in vivo measurement of lumbar Spine segmental motion.
- Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) stimulates the extracellular matrix metabolism of porcine nucleus pulposus and anulus fibrosus cells cultured in alginate beads.
- Osteogenic protein-1 injection into a degenerated Disc induces the restoration of Disc height and structural changes in the rabbit anular puncture model.
- Relevance of in vitro and in vivo models for intervertebral Disc degeneration.
- Directions for future research.
- Intervertebral Disc degeneration. Summary of an AAOS/NIH/ORS workshop, September 2005.
- Spinal infections: diagnostic tests and imaging studies.
- Unusual presentation of a paraspinal mass with involvement of a lumbar facet Joint and the epidural space.
- Anti-adhesion properties of a thrombin-based hemostatic gelatin in a canine laminectomy model: a biomechanical, biochemical, and histologic study.
- Transduced bovine articular chondrocytes affect the metabolism of cocultured nucleus pulposus cells in vitro: implications for chondrocyte transplantation into the int...
- Exposure to pulsed low intensity ultrasound stimulates extracellular matrix metabolism of bovine intervertebral Disc cells cultured in alginate beads.
Schools
University of Toledo College of Medicine
Mc Ohio
Jefferson Med College
Procedures Preformed
- Dural Repair or Other Spinal Spinal Cord Repair
- Epidural Block, Facet Blocks
- Hand and Wrist Fracture Treatment, Closed
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Conditions Treated
- Adhesive Capsulitis
- Arm Fracture (incl. Elbow and Shoulder)
- Ataxia
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Doctors Specialties
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Orthopaedic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Chicago Magazine: Top Doctors
- America's Top Doctors
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
- Super Doctor
Education
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Pennsylvania Hospital - University of Pennsylvania Health System -
Thomas Jefferson University -
Medical College of Ohio at Toledo -
University of Toledo College of Medicine
Hospital
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Rush Oak Park Hospital -
Rush University Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1255310157 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | AN | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | HOWARD | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 606123841 | |
| NPPES Provider State | IL | |
| Specialty Description | Orthopedic Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 248.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 2.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 76.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 30.65 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1255310157 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | AN |
| First Name Of The Provider | HOWARD |
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