Posts by Vijay Yanamadala, MD
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Sacral Slope Measurement Helpful for Determining if Fusion Surgery Needed for Spondylolisthesis
Neurosurgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital have determined that higher sacral slope is a risk factor for pars fractures in patients with low-grade L5–S1 spondylolisthesis.
Biography
Vijay Yanamadala, MD, is a neurosurgery resident at Massachusetts General Hodspital. He has done research on topics including synthetic organic chemistry, hypertension, and on the biochemical signaling pathways of G proteins and apoptosis in Polycystic Kidney Disease, the most common monogenic genetic disease in the world. This work has led to first-author publications in various journals, including the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
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