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Shreyansh Shah

Associate Professor of Neurology
Neurology, Neurocritical Care
Duke University Medical Center, Box 3824, Durham, NC 27710

Featured Works


In-hospital outcomes of thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke in patients with primary brain tumors.

Journal article J Clin Neurosci · March 2015 Featured Publication Data on thrombolysis outcomes in patients with primary brain tumors are limited. Our aim was to study stroke outcomes following thrombolysis in these patients in a population-based study. Patients with acute ischemic stroke who received thrombolysis were i ... Full text Link to item Cite

Improving early clinical trial phase identification of promising therapeutics

Journal article Neurology · 2015 Featured Publication Cite

In-hospital outcomes of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage associated with cocaine use in the USA.

Journal article J Clin Neurosci · December 2014 Featured Publication Cocaine use is associated with higher mortality in small retrospective studies of brain-injured patients. We aimed to explore in-hospital outcomes in a large population based study of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) with cocaine use. aSAH patient ... Full text Link to item Cite

Clinical characteristics of myocardial stunning in acute stroke.

Journal article J Clin Neurosci · August 2014 Featured Publication Neurogenic stunned myocardium (NSM) after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is well known, but there is a paucity of data regarding its occurrence following acute stroke. The aim of this study is to investigate the clinical characteristics of NSM in acute non- ... Full text Link to item Cite

The SILK flow diverter in the treatment of intracranial aneurysms.

Journal article J Clin Neurosci · February 2014 Featured Publication The SILK flow diverter (SFD; Balt Extrusion, Montmorency, France) is a flow diverting stent used in the endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms. It works on the principle of redirecting flow away from the aneurysm sac, leading to occlusion over ti ... Full text Link to item Cite

Treatment of unruptured intracranial aneurysms with the pipeline embolization device.

Journal article J Clin Neurosci · January 2014 Featured Publication The pipeline embolization device (PED; ev3 Endovascular, Plymouth, MN, USA) is a flow-diverter used in the endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms, particularly those with unfavorable configurations. It causes progressive flow redirection leading ... Full text Link to item Cite

Thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke in patients with cancer: a population study.

Journal article Stroke · December 2013 Featured Publication BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The safety of thrombolysis for acute stroke in patients with cancer is not well established. Our aim is to study the outcomes after thrombolysis in patients with stroke with cancer. METHODS: Patients with acute ischemic stroke who r ... Full text Link to item Cite

The utility of cone beam volume CT in the evaluation of thrombosed intracranial aneurysms in subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Journal article J Neurointerv Surg · November 2013 Featured Publication Thrombosed aneurysms are difficult to visualize with digital subtraction angiography. We report a case of subarachnoid hemorrhage from a thrombosed ruptured aneurysm which was undetected on digital subtraction angiography but was visualized with cone beam ... Full text Link to item Cite

Decompressive hemicraniectomy in pediatric patients with malignant middle cerebral artery infarction: case series and review of the literature.

Journal article World Neurosurg · 2013 Featured Publication OBJECTIVE: Malignant middle cerebral artery infarction (mMCAI) is a life-threatening condition in pediatric patients. Despite strong evidence showing decreased morbidity and mortality in adult mMCAI patients with decompressive hemicraniectomy (DCH), there ... Full text Link to item Cite

Neurogenic Stunned Myocardium Following Acute Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Pathophysiology and Practical Considerations

Journal article Journal of Intensive Care Medicine · 2013 Featured Publication Cite

Intracranial optic nerve enlargement in infantile Krabbe disease.

Journal article Neurology · May 15, 2012 Featured Publication Full text Link to item Cite

Intracranial optic nerve enlargement in infantile Krabbe disease.

Journal article Neurology · 2012 Featured Publication Cite

Serotonin- and training-induced dynamic regulation of CREB2 in Aplysia.

Journal article Learn Mem · 2011 Featured Publication Long-term memory and plasticity, including long-term synaptic facilitation (LTF) of the Aplysia sensorimotor synapse, depend on the activation of transcription factors that regulate genes necessary for synaptic plasticity. In the present study we found tha ... Full text Link to item Cite