Dr. Brett R. Levine MD, MS
Orthopedist
1611 W Harrison St Suite 400 Chicago IL, 60612About
Dr. Brett Levine is an orthopaedic surgeon practicing in Chicago, IL. Dr. Levine specializes in the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, diseases and disorders of the bodys musculoskeletal system. As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Levine tends to bones, ligaments, muscles, joints, nerves and tendons. Orthopaedic surgeons can specialize in certain areas like the hand, spine, hip, foot and ankle, shoulder and elbow or the knee.
Education and Training
Georgetown University School of Medicine 2000
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Use of blood culture vial specimens in intraoperative detection of infection.
- Bilateral THA in a patient with Waldenstrom's macroglobulinemia.
- Surgical approaches in total hip arthroplasty: a review of the mini-incision and MIS literature.
- Proximal tibia reconstruction with a porous tantalum cone in a patient with Charcot arthropathy.
- Fracture of the modular femoral neck component in total hip arthroplasty.
- Adverse reactions in metal-on-metal total hip arthroplasty: two cases presenting as pseudoseptic acetabular component loosening.
- Effect of training level on accuracy of digital templating in primary total hip and knee arthroplasty.
- Revision surgery for a dislocated constrained total knee arthroplasty.
- Template-directed instrumentation in total knee arthroplasty: cost savings analysis.
- Use of knotless suture for closure of total hip and knee arthroplasties: a prospective, randomized clinical trial.
- Pseudotumor from modular neck corrosion after ceramic-on-polyethylene total hip arthroplasty.
- Correlation of aspiration results with aseptic loosening in total hip arthroplasty.
- Correlation of aspiration results with periprosthetic sepsis in revision total hip arthroplasty.
- Author reply: "correlation of aspiration results with periprosthetic sepsis in revision total hip arthroplasty".
- The inter-observer and intra-observer reliability of the Paprosky femoral bone loss classification system.
Treatments
- Arthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Pain
- Abnormal Gait
Professional Memberships
- Fellow American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
Fellowships
- Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
- Rush University Medical Center - Adult Reconstructive Surgery
- Rush University Medical Center
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