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Nestor Gonzalez

Professor of Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Verified email at cshs.org
Cited by 46374

Challenges in the endovascular treatment of giant intracranial aneurysms

NR Gonzalez, G Duckwiler, R Jahan, Y Murayama… - …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
OBJECTIVE: Giant intracranial aneurysms present unique therapeutic intricacies. The
purpose of this study was to evaluate the anatomic and hemodynamic characteristics of these …

Clinical and angiographic outcomes from indirect revascularization surgery for Moyamoya disease in adults and children: a review of 63 procedures

JR Dusick, NR Gonzalez, NA Martin - Neurosurgery, 2011 - journals.lww.com
BACKGROUND: Several forms of indirect cerebral revascularization have been proposed to
promote neovascularity to the ischemic brain. OBJECTIVE: To present clinical and …

Management of extracranial carotid artery disease

YC Ooi, NR Gonzalez - Cardiology clinics, 2015 - cardiology.theclinics.com
When considered as an independent diagnosis separate from other cardiovascular diseases,
stroke is the third leading cause of death in developed nations and a leading cause of long…

Matrix and bioabsorbable polymeric coils accelerate healing of intracranial aneurysms: long-term experimental study

Y Murayama, S Tateshima, NR Gonzalez, F Vinuela - Stroke, 2003 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose— Acceleration of intra-aneurysmal clot organization and fibrosis
may be a solution to preventing aneurysm recanalization after endovascular treatment. The …

Natural history of asymptomatic unruptured cerebral aneurysms evaluated at CT angiography: growth and rupture incidence and correlation with epidemiologic risk …

…, S Tateshima, NA Martin, J Frazee, NR Gonzalez… - Radiology, 2013 - pubs.rsna.org
Purpose To characterize the relationship between aneurysm size and epidemiologic risk
factors with growth and rupture by using computed tomographic (CT) angiography. Materials …

Vasospasm probability index: a combination of transcranial doppler velocities, cerebral blood flow, and clinical risk factors to predict cerebral vasospasm after …

NR Gonzalez, WJ Boscardin, T Glenn, F Vinuela… - Journal of …, 2007 - thejns.org
Object The goal in this study was to create an index (vasospasm probability index [VPI]) to
improve diagnostic accuracy for vasospasm after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Methods …

Collateral flow as causative of good outcomes in endovascular stroke therapy

…, S Starkman, LK Ali, D Kim, NR Gonzalez… - Journal of …, 2016 - jnis.bmj.com
Background Endovascular reperfusion techniques are a promising intervention for acute
ischemic stroke (AIS). Prior studies have identified markers of initial injury (arrival NIH stroke …

Clinical application of preconditioning and postconditioning to achieve neuroprotection

C Dezfulian, M Garrett, NR Gonzalez - Translational stroke research, 2013 - Springer
Gonzalez and colleagues recently reported the hemodynamic and brain metabolic effects
of remote conditioning in patients with subarachnoid hemorrhage during the initial 2 weeks …

Leukoaraiosis predicts parenchymal hematoma after mechanical thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke

ZS Shi, Y Loh, DS Liebeskind, JL Saver, NR Gonzalez… - Stroke, 2012 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose— The purpose of this study was to determine whether leukoaraiosis
(LA) predicts hemorrhagic transformation and poor outcome in patients with acute …

Bioabsorbable polymeric material coils for embolization of intracranial aneurysms: a preliminary experimental study

…, F Viñuela, S Tateshima, JK Song, NR Gonzalez… - Journal of …, 2001 - thejns.org
Object. A new embolic agent, bioabsorbable polymeric material (BPM), was incorporated
into Guglielmi detachable coils (GDCs) to improve long-term anatomical results in the …