Blake Formanek
University of Southern California
25 Papers
19 Citations
Blake Formanek is an academic researcher from University of Southern California. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Lumbar. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 20 publications. Previous affiliations of Blake Formanek include University of California, Los Angeles.
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Papers
Cervical Disc Replacement: Trends, Costs, and Complications.
Nickul S. Jain,Ailene Nguyen,Blake Formanek,Ram K. Alluri,Zorica Buser,Raymond J. Hah,Jeffrey C. Wang +6 more
TL;DR: The use of CDR continued to increase, the most common complication was mechanical and/or bone-related, and cost analysis demonstrated no significant difference between inpatient and outpatient CDR.
Preoperative Vitamin D Deficiency Is Associated With Higher Postoperative Complications in Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair.
Garrett K. Harada,Armin Arshi,Nickolas F Fretes,Blake Formanek,Seth C. Gamradt,David R. McAllister,Frank A. Petrigliano +6 more
- 03 Jul 2019
TL;DR: Vitamin D deficiency is associated with a greater risk of postoperative surgical complications after arthroscopic RCR and may be a modifiable risk factor.
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Perioperative Complications of Surgery for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: A Comparison Between 3 Procedures:
Mohamed Kamal Mesregah,Mohamed Kamal Mesregah,Blake Formanek,John C. Liu,Zorica Buser,Jeffrey C. Wang +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the perioperative complications of propensity score-matched cohorts of patients with degenerative cervical myelopathy (DCM) were compared with patients who did not have DCM.
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Postoperative complications in adult spinal deformity patients with a mental illness undergoing reconstructive thoracic or thoracolumbar spine surgery.
TL;DR: Patients with spinal deformity and pre-existing depression and/or anxiety treated with a posterior thoracolumbar reconstructive spinal surgery had significantly elevated risk of postoperative infections and respiratory complications when compared with the control group.
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The incidence of myocardial infarction after lumbar spine surgery.
TL;DR: Preoperative risk factors, patient demographics, and procedure type had a significant effect on the incidence of postoperative myocardial infarction.
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