Dr. Shankar P. Gopinath MD
Neurosurgeon
1504 Taub Loop Houston TX, 77030Rating
3/5
About
Dr. Shankar Gopinath practices Neurological Surgery in Houston, TX. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Gopinath prevents, diagnoses, evaluates, and treats disorders of the autonomic, peripheral, and central nervous systems. Neurological Surgeons are trained to treat such disorders as spinal canal stenosis, herniated discs, tumors, fractures, and spinal deformities, among many others.
Education and Training
Mysore Medical College and Research Institute 1981
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Extracellular lactate and glucose alterations in the brain after head injury measured by microdialysis.
- Cerebral hemodynamic effects of pentobarbital coma in head-injured patients.
- Prevention of secondary ischemic insults after severe head injury.
- Simultaneous measurement of cortical potassium, calcium, and magnesium levels measured in head injured patients using microdialysis with ion chromatography.
- Midline shift after severe head injury: pathophysiologic implications.
- Intraosseous lipoma of the skull.
- Single small CT lesions with seizures.
- Brain tissue oxygen tension response to induced hyperoxia reduced in hypoperfused brain.
- Outcome in patients with blunt head trauma and a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3 at presentation.
- Pro-inflammatory and pro-apoptotic elements of the neuroinflammatory response are activated in traumatic brain injury.
- Whipple disease of the central nervous system: an unusual occurrence in association with acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
- Multiple myeloma presenting as solitary mass in the posterior fossa.
- Influence of alcohol on early Glasgow Coma Scale in head-injured patients.
- Pulmonary embolus from acute superior sagittal sinus thrombosis secondary to
- Outcome prediction within twelve hours after severe traumatic brain injury by quantitative cerebral blood flow.
Treatments
- Stroke
- Neck Pain
- Back Pain
- Brain Tumor
- Cerebrovascular Disease
- Aneurysm
- Spinal Stenosis
- Brain Aneurysm
- Lumecca
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