Saman Shabani, MD

Publications

• The Impact of Body Mass Index and Metabolic Syndrome on Perioperative Outcomes Following Cervical Laminoplasty.

  (Shahbandi A, Ghamasaee P, Yassin Kassab AM, Shabani S.) Global Spine J. 2025 Jun 06:21925682251349993 PMID: 40479528 PMCID: PMC12144038 06/06/2025

• Systematic Review and Case Report of Multimodal Therapy for Treatment of Advanced Thoracic Spine Paraganglioma.

  (Treffy RW, Rahman M, DeGroot AL, Bakhaidar MGM, Hussain O, Nerva JD, Connelly JM, Shabani S.) World Neurosurg. 2025 Jun;198:123976 PMID: 40222669 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105004397579 04/14/2025

• Letter: Commentary: Cervicothoracic Deformity in the Setting of Adhesive Arachnoiditis: An Operative Video Article.

  (Bakhaidar MG, Shahbandi A, Shabani S.) Oper Neurosurg (Hagerstown). 2025 Apr 28;29(1):164 PMID: 40293250 04/28/2025

• Leveraging machine learning to ascertain the implications of preoperative body mass index on surgical outcomes for 282 patients with preoperative obesity and lumbar spondylolisthesis in the Quality Outcomes Database.

  (Agarwal N, Aabedi AA, Chan AK, Letchuman V, Shabani S, Bisson EF, Bydon M, Glassman SD, Foley KT, Shaffrey CI, Potts EA, Shaffrey ME, Coric D, Knightly JJ, Park P, Wang MY, Fu KM, Slotkin JR, Asher AL, Virk MS, Haid RW, Chou D, Mummaneni PV.) J Neurosurg Spine. 2023 Feb 01;38(2):182-191 PMID: 36208428 10/09/2022

• COVID-19 co-infection in a patient with brucellosis.

  (Shabani S, Ghadimi S.) Clin Case Rep. 2022 Sep;10(9):e6367 PMID: 36188045 PMCID: PMC9500419 10/04/2022

• The Clinical Impact of Failing to Achieve Ideal Proportional Realignment in Adult Spinal Deformity Patients.

  (Passias PG, Passfall L, Williamson TK, Schoenfeld AJ, Owusu-Sarpong S, Dhillon E, Krol O, Kummer NA, Tretiakov P, Imbo B, Joujon-Roche R, Moattari K, Lebovic J, Vira S, Diebo B, Smith JS, Park P, Mummaneni P, Shabani S, Chou D, Lafage R, Lafage V.) Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2022 Jul 15;47(14):995-1002 PMID: 35125457 02/08/2022

• Intraoperative Monitoring for Spinal Surgery.

  (Agarwal N, Shabani S, Huang J, Ben-Natan AR, Mummaneni PV.) Neurol Clin. 2022 May;40(2):269-281 PMID: 35465874 04/26/2022

• Pearls and Pitfalls of Awake Spine Surgery: A Simplified Patient-Selection Algorithm.

  (Letchuman V, Agarwal N, Mummaneni VP, Wang MY, Shabani S, Patel A, Rivera J, Haddad A, Le V, Chang JM, Chou D, Gandhi S, Mummaneni PV.) World Neurosurg. 2022 May;161:154-155 PMID: 35217225 02/27/2022

• Management of Thoracic Disc Pathology via the Lateral Approach: Advances Using the Minimally Invasive Approach and Navigation.

  (Shabani S, Mummaneni PV, Chan A, Huang J, Agarwal N, Deviran V, Chou D.) Int J Spine Surg. 2022 Mar;16(S1):S44-S52 PMID: 35387888 PMCID: PMC9983567 04/08/2022

• Cerebrospinal fluid venous fistula: Illustrative case.

  (Shlobin NA, Shahrestani S, Shabani S, Agarwal N, Tan L.) Surg Neurol Int. 2022;13:374 PMID: 36128164 PMCID: PMC9479572 09/22/2022

• Awake spinal surgery: simplifying the learning curve with a patient selection algorithm.

  (Letchuman V, Agarwal N, Mummaneni VP, Wang MY, Shabani S, Patel A, Rivera J, Haddad AF, Le V, Chang JM, Chou D, Gandhi S, Mummaneni PV.) Neurosurg Focus. 2021 Dec;51(6):E2 PMID: 34852318 12/02/2021

• Intradural view of the spinal cord and dura after three-column osteotomy: illustrative case.

  (Zhao Z, Shabani S, Agarwal N, Mummaneni PV, Chou D.) J Neurosurg Case Lessons. 2021 Nov 08;2(19):CASE21497 PMID: 36061976 PMCID: PMC9435575 09/06/2022