Scholars@Duke
Ninad Desai

Ninad Desai

Assistant Professor of Neurology
Hospital Neurology

Selected Publications

Predictors of seizure outcomes of autoimmune encephalitis: A clinical and morphometric quantitative analysis study.

Journal Article Clin Neurol Neurosurg · August 2023 OBJECTIVE: Autoimmune encephalitis can be followed by treatment-resistant epilepsy. Understanding its predictors and mechanisms are crucial to future studies to improve autoimmune encephalitis outcomes. Our objective was to determine the clinical and imagi ... Full text Link to item Cite

Impact of ARUBA trial on trends and outcomes in symptomatic non-ruptured brain AVMs: A national sample analysis.

Journal Article J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis · December 2022 INTRODUCTION: The real-world evolution of management and outcomes of patients with unruptured brain arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) has not been well-delineated following the ARUBA trial findings of no general advantage of initial interventional (surgic ... Full text Link to item Cite

Burden of acute symptomatic seizures in cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: A nationwide United States analysis.

Journal Article Clin Neurol Neurosurg · October 2021 INTRODUCTION: Acute symptomatic seizures (ASS) are seen in one-third of cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVT) cases either as the presenting symptom or shortly after diagnosis in the acute phase. The goal of our study was to assess the trends in recogniti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neurosyphilis presenting with a large vessel occlusion

Journal Article Brain Circulation · October 2021 We describe a case of a 36-year-old man who presented with stroke in the right paramedian pons in the pontine perforator territory, manifesting as intermittent headache, slurred speech, left-sided we ... Full text Cite

Readmission Trends Related to Unruptured Intracranial Aneurysm Treatment

Journal Article Frontiers in Neurology · May 20, 2021 Background and Purpose: Aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is associated with high mortality. Prophylactic treatment of the unruptured intracranial aneurysm (UIA) is considered in a select group of patients thought to be at high for aneurysmal ruptur ... Full text Cite

Thirty-day readmissions in multiple sclerosis: An age and gender-based US national retrospective analysis.

Journal Article Mult Scler Relat Disord · June 2019 BACKGROUND: Hospital readmission rate is an important indicator of the quality of care, healthcare economic burden, and post-discharge care. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a potentially progressive neurological disease predominantly affecting young women. The ... Full text Link to item Cite

Increasing Velocity Slow Phases in Acquired Nystagmus.

Journal Article J Neuroophthalmol · December 2018 Full text Link to item Cite

Outcomes of early carotid stenting and angioplasty in large-vessel anterior circulation strokes treated with mechanical thrombectomy and intravenous thrombolytics.

Journal Article Interv Neuroradiol · August 2018 Introduction Proximal cervical internal carotid artery stenosis greater than 50% merits revascularization to mitigate the risk of stroke recurrence among large-vessel anterior circulation strokes undergoing mechanical thrombectomy. Carotid artery stenting ... Full text Link to item Cite

Central Nervous System Vasculopathy In Varicella Zoster Virus Infection

Journal Article Journal of Neuroinfectious Diseases · 2017 Full text Cite

Optic neuropathy in late-onset neurodegenerative Chédiak-Higashi syndrome.

Journal Article Br J Ophthalmol · May 2016 BACKGROUND: The classic form of Chédiak-Higashi syndrome (CHS), an autosomal recessive disorder of lysosomal trafficking with childhood onset caused by mutations in ITALIC! LYST, is typified ophthalmologically by ocular albinism with vision loss attributed ... Full text Link to item Cite

Objectifying eye movements during rapid number naming: Methodology for assessment of normative data for the King-Devick test.

Journal Article J Neurol Sci · March 15, 2016 OBJECTIVE: Concussion is a major public health problem and considerable efforts are focused on sideline-based diagnostic testing to guide return-to-play decision-making and clinical care. The King-Devick (K-D) test, a sensitive sideline performance measure ... Full text Link to item Cite

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