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  • Friday, Feb 27th
    3:54 PM - 3:59 PM MST
    The Effect of Low Dose Ketorolac on Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion Patients: Final Analysis from a Randomized, Double-Blinded, Placebo-Controlled Trial
    Location: Grand Saguaro North/South, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Bryce Sarcar, DO – MSUCHM/Henry Ford Providence Neurosurgery
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Saturday, Feb 28th
    7:03 AM - 7:06 AM MST
    Revision Anterior Lumbar Spine Access Surgery: Is It Safe?
    Location: Desert Suite 3/5, Level 2
    Presenting Author: Sree M. Vemu, MD – Houston Methodist Hospital
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Saturday, Feb 28th
    7:06 AM - 7:09 AM MST
    Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy is Associated with Decreased Postoperative Opioid Utilization Compared to Traditional Microdiscectomy: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis
    Location: Grand Canyon 9-10, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Darius Ansari, MD – University of Wisconsin
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Saturday, Feb 28th
    7:15 AM - 7:18 AM MST
    Single Position Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion: A Comparative Analysis of Prone Versus Lateral Decubitus Positioning for Safety and Efficiency
    Location: Grand Canyon 9-10, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Sree M. Vemu, MD – Houston Methodist Hospital
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Saturday, Feb 28th
    7:24 AM - 7:26 AM MST
    Are Outcomes Between Minimally Invasive and Open Approaches for Degenerative Grade I Spondylolisthesis Influenced by Disease Burden? A 60-month QOD Study.
    Location: Desert Suite 4/6, Level 2
    Presenting Author: Peter J. Chabot, BA – Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Saturday, Feb 28th
    7:24 AM - 7:27 AM MST
    Cost-Effectiveness of Minimally Invasive Surgery for Grade 1 Lumbar Spondylolisthesis: A 5-year Quality Outcomes Database Study
    Location: Grand Canyon 9-10, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Farhan Khan, MD – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Saturday, Feb 28th
    7:45 AM - 7:48 AM MST
    Outcomes of Circumferential Minimally-Invasive Technique vs. Open Technique in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery Patients Over 80 Years of Age: A Propensity Matched Analysis
    Location: Desert Suite 3/5, Level 2
    Presenting Author: Peter G. Passias, MD – Duke University
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Saturday, Feb 28th
    8:21 AM - 8:24 AM MST
    Do Outcomes Diverge Over Time? A 5-year Quality Outcomes Database Study Comparing Minimally Invasive vs Open Surgery for Degenerative Low-Grade Lumbar Spondylolisthesis.
    Location: Desert Suite 3/5, Level 2
    Presenting Author: Farhan Khan, MD – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Saturday, Feb 28th
    8:24 AM - 8:27 AM MST
    Are Certain Facets of Disability from Degenerative Low-Grade Spondylolisthesis Better Improved with Minimally Invasive or Open Surgery? A 5-year Quality Outcomes Database Study.
    Location: Desert Suite 3/5, Level 2
    Presenting Author: Farhan Khan, MD – Columbia University Irving Medical Center
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Saturday, Feb 28th
    8:24 AM - 8:27 AM MST
    Surgical Outcomes of Minimally Invasive Cervical Foraminotomy for C8 Radiculopathy with Motor Deficits Using Dynamometer-Based Testing
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Yasmeen Elsawaf, MD – OHSU - Department of Neurological Surgery
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    7:02 AM - 7:04 AM MST
    Mind the Gap: Symptom Relief Outpaces Mobility Gains After Endoscopic Lumbar Decompression Surgery
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Christoph P. Hofstetter, MD, PhD, FAANS – University of Washington
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    7:04 AM - 7:06 AM MST
    24-Month outcomes of an FDA Trial of Decompression and Dynamic Sagittal Tether Stabilization versus Decompression and Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion for Degenerative Spondylolisthesis
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Muhammad Irfan Kaleem, MBBS – Washington University in St. Louis
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    7:06 AM - 7:08 AM MST
    Augmented Reality Assisted Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion: Safe and Effective Workflow with Intraoperative Video
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Iyan Younus, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    7:08 AM - 7:10 AM MST
    Biportal Endoscopic Spine Surgery (BESS) Complications from 2013–2024: Findings from a Proportional Meta-Analysis Series
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Chibuikem A. Ikwuegbuenyi, MD – Department of Neurological Surgery, Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, New York
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    7:10 AM - 7:12 AM MST
    Comparative Outcomes of Minimally Invasive Versus Open Sacroiliac Joint Fusion in a National Cohort
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Pirooz Fereydouni, BA – The University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine, CA
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    7:12 AM - 7:14 AM MST
    Comparison of Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery with Stereotactic Radiation with Open Surgical Techniques: Outcomes in Epidural Compression, Complications and Survival
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Anubhav Amin, MD, FAANS – University of Washington
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    7:20 AM - 7:22 AM MST
    Does Transforaminal Endoscopic Spine Surgery Alter Biomechanics and Increase Instability: Cadaveric Biomechanical Model
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Shahed Elhamdani, MD – Allegheny Health Network
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    7:28 AM - 7:30 AM MST
    Endoscopic Spine Surgery: Early Experience and Initial Learning Curve for a Late Career Surgeon
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    7:30 AM - 7:32 AM MST
    Evaluating Biomechanical Stress in Internal Spinal Fixators and Vertebral Body Replacements
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Sohail Daulat, BS – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    7:32 AM - 7:34 AM MST
    Full-endoscopic versus lateral retropleural thoracic discectomy: a comparison of intraoperative and perioperative outcomes
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Katriel Lee, MD – Barrow Neurological Institute
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    7:52 AM - 7:54 AM MST
    Endoscopic posterior cervical decompression to resect OPLL and central osteophytes: technical notes and a case series with-10 year follow-up
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Jian Shen, MD, PhD – Shen-Spine, LLC
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    7:54 AM - 7:56 AM MST
    Incidence and Clinical Relevance of Pseudohernia Formation After Thoracic Disc Surgery at the Thoracolumbar Junction
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Juan Pedro P. Giraldo, MD – Wake Forest Baptist Hospital
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    7:58 AM - 8:00 AM MST
    Local Surgical Site Drilled Morselized Bone Autograft In Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (MI-TLIF): A 9-Year Cost Analysis
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Casey Spinelli, MD – Corewell Health
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    8:00 AM - 8:02 AM MST
    Multicenter Comparative Outcomes of Endoscopic Transforaminal vs Interlaminar Lumbar Discectomy
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Christoph P. Hofstetter, MD, PhD, FAANS – University of Washington
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    8:04 AM - 8:06 AM MST
    Outcomes of Endoscopic vs. Traditional Lumbar Microdiscectomy: A Comparative cohort analysis
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Sapan Gandhi, MD – Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians at BIDMC
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    8:06 AM - 8:08 AM MST
    Outpatient Anterior Disc Replacement: Is It Safe? An Analysis of 1,043 Patients Undergoing Anterior Disc Replacements in an Ambulatory Surgery Center.
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Sawyer Scheitler, MS – DISC Sports and Spine
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    8:08 AM - 8:10 AM MST
    Radiographic and Clinical Comparison of Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion versus Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion with Expandable Cage
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Anand Dharia, MD – Department of Neurosurgery, Kansas University Medical Center
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    8:12 AM - 8:14 AM MST
    Revision Sacroiliac Joint Fusion Utilizing Novel Techniques: Mid-Term Patient-Reported Outcomes and Fusion Rates
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Katrina A. Pfaffenbach, B.S., B.A. – Mayo Clinic
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    8:20 AM - 8:22 AM MST
    Open or Minimally Invasive TLIF: Alignment Gains at the Cost of Durotomy and Adjacent Segment Disease
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Kiana J. Yeganeh, B.S. – USF Department of Neurosurgery, Brain, and Spine
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    8:24 AM - 8:26 AM MST
    The effect of decompression techniques on lumbar spinous process strength
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Jonas Widmer, PhD PD – Department of Orthopedics, Spine Biomechanics, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    8:30 AM - 8:32 AM MST
    Transforaminal Endoscopic Repair of Spontaneous Ventral Spinal CSF Leaks: A Novel Extradural Approach
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Audrey Demand, MD – Houston Methodist Hospital
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    8:32 AM - 8:34 AM MST
    Twelve-month clinical and radiographic outcomes following minimally invasive inferior-posterior sacroiliac joint fusion using a novel SI Joint Fusion System: a prospective, multi-center evaluation
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Matthew T. Davies, MD – Orthopaedic Associates of Duluth P.A.
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    8:34 AM - 8:36 AM MST
    Where the Dura Gives Way: Incidence and Risk Factors for Incidental Durotomy in Endoscopic Spine Surgery
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Gaddiel O. Ahmed, MS – Ponce Health Sciences University
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    8:42 AM - 8:44 AM MST
    Navigating Complexity in Thoracic Disc Herniations: A Comparative Analysis of Two Minimally Invasive Techniques. Endoscopic Trasnsforaminal vs. Lateral Retropleural Approaches
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Mohammadmahdi Sabahi, MD.MPH – Department of Neurological Surgery, Pauline Braathen Neurological Center, Cleveland Clinic Florida
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation
  • Sunday, Mar 1st
    8:44 AM - 8:46 AM MST
    Position-dependent variations in Great Vessel Anatomy: Implications for Complex Prone Later Surgery
    Location: Grand Canyon 11-12, Level 1
    Presenting Author: Ricky M. Ditzel, Jr., BSHS, FP-C – Rush Medical College
    Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation