Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine

Orthopaedic Surgery

Serena practices Orthopaedic Surgery. She received 1 awards: "Super Doctor". Serena has written publications. She has 51 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament of the Cervical Spine in 3161 Patients: A CT-Based Study.'

Publications

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• Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament of the Cervical Spine in 3161 Patients: A CT-Based Study.
• Hospital Readmission Rates After Surgical Treatment of Primary and Metastatic Tumors of the Spine.
• The Increased Prevalence of Cervical Spondylosis in Patients with Adult Thoracolumbar Spinal Deformity.
• Long fusion from sacrum to thoracic Spine for adult spinal deformity with sagittal imbalance: upper versus lower thoracic Spine as site of upper instrumented vertebra.
• The concomitance of Cervical spondylosis and adult thoracolumbar spinal deformity.
• Venous Thromboembolism After Spine Surgery.
• InterVertebral discs from spinal nondeformity and deformity patients have different mechanical and matrix properties.
• Predictive Factors for Proximal Junctional Kyphosis in Long Fusions to the Sacrum in Adult Spinal Deformity.
• Revision surgery for Lumbar pseudarthrosis.
• Surgical Site Infections in Spine Surgery: Identification of Microbiologic and Surgical Characteristics in 239 Cases.
• Hospital Readmission After Spine Fusion for Adult Spinal Deformity.
• Surgical Site Infection (SSI) in Spinal Surgery: Description of Surgical and Patient-Based Risk Factors for Postoperative Infection Using Administrative Claims Data.
• Value-based Care in the Management of Spinal Disorders: A Systematic Review of Cost-utility Analysis.
• Direct Lateral Approach to Lumbar Fusion is a Biomechanically Equivalent Alternative to the Anterior Approach: An in vitro Study.
• In-vivo InterVertebral Disc Characterization using Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and T1? Imaging: Association with Discography and Oswestry Disability Index and SF-36.
• Commentary: Iliac crest bone graft: are the Complications overrated?
• The effect of type of osteotomy on the risk of postoperative spinal infections.
• Surgical compared with nonoperative treatment for lumbar degenerative spondylolisthesis. four-year results in the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT) randomi...
• The factors that play a role in the decision-making process of adult deformity patients.
• Reoperation after primary fusion for adult spinal deformity: rate, reason, and timing.
• Relaxation of forces needed to distract Cervical vertebrae after discectomy: a biomechanical study.
• Clinical outcome of deep wound infection after instrumented posterior spinal fusion: a matched cohort analysis.
• Patient preferences and expectations for care: determinants in patients with lumbar interVertebral disc herniation.
• Extravasation of rhBMP-2 with use of postoperative drains after posterolateral spinal fusion.
• AOA symposium. Current state of fellowship hiring: is a universal match necessary? Is it possible?
• The efficacy of motor evoked potentials in fixed sagittal imbalance deformity correction surgery.
• Biomechanics of the anterior longitudinal ligament during 8 g whiplash simulation following single- and contiguous two-level fusion: a finite element study.
• Comparison of observer variation in conventional and three digital radiographic methods used in the evaluation of patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
• Use of C-reactive protein after spinal surgery: comparison with erythrocyte sedimentation rate as predictor of early postoperative infectious Complications.
• Spondylolisthesis and spondylolysis.
• Recombinant activated factor VII in spinal surgery: a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-escalation trial.
• Visual loss after spinal surgery.
• Surgical versus nonsurgical treatment for lumbar Degenerative spondylolisthesis.
• Operative management of Degenerative scoliosis: an evidence-based approach to surgical strategies based on clinical and radiographic outcomes.
• Surgical strategies and choosing levels for spinal deformity: how high, how low, front and Back.
• Preparing the adult deformity patient for spinal surgery.
• Disc arthroplasty design influences interVertebral kinematics and facet forces.
• IntraDiscal thermal therapy does not stimulate biologic remodeling in an in vivo sheep model.
• Risk factors for infection after spinal surgery.
• Percutaneous plasma decompression alters cytokine expression in injured porcine interVertebral discs.
• Studies in the modified Scoliosis Research Society Outcomes Instrument in adults: validation, reliability, and Discriminatory capacity.
• Lumbar end plate osteotomy in adult patients with scoliosis.
• Burst fracture in the metastatically involved Spine: development, validation, and parametric analysis of a three-dimensional poroelastic finite-element model.
• Biomechanically derived guideline equations for burst fracture risk prediction in the metastatically involved Spine.
• Predictors of flexibility and Pain patterns in thoracolumbar and lumbar idiopathic scoliosis.
• The lumbar zygapophyseal (facet) joints: a role in the pathogenesis of spinal Pain syndromes and degenerative spondylolisthesis.
• Outcome and complications of long fusions to the sacrum in adult Spine deformity: luque-galveston, combined iliac and sacral screws, and sacral fixation.
• Use of allograft femoral rings for spinal deformity in adults.
• High thoracic spinal infection following upper gastrointestinal work-up.
• Blood loss in adult spinal surgery.

Schools

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• McGill University Faculty Of Medicine

• Beth Israel Mc

• Hospital For Special Surgery

• Rancho Los Amigos

• California Orthopaedic Association

Procedures Preformed

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• Disc Replacement
• Dressing and-or Debridement of Wound, Infection, or Burn (incl. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy)
• Dural Repair or Other Spinal Spinal Cord Repair
• Epidural Block, Facet Blocks
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Conditions Treated

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• Ankylosing Spondylitis
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• Ataxia
• Back Pain
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Doctors Specialties

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• Orthopedic Surgery
• Orthopaedic Surgery

Accepted Insurances

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Awards

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• Super Doctor

Education

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• Hospital for Special Surgery
• Mount Sinai Beth Israel
• McGill University Faculty of Medicine

Hospital

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• Stanford Health Care
• UCSF Medical Center

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