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Pietro Ivo D'Urso FRCS @pidurso

Professor of Neurosurgery MAHSC Honorary Clinical Chair Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences Northern Care Alliance Salford Royal Hospital

Joined August 2013
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Beautifully delivered summary of Manchester trials @ BNOS25: well done Gerben Borst! @TheChristieNHS @NCAlliance_NHS @salford @OfficialUoM @BNOSofficial
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King's Neurosurgery@KingsNeuro
31 Dec 2024
New Year Honours List @KingsNeuro Prof Keyoumars Ashkan, MBE - for contributions to Neurosurgery Prof Safa Al-Sarraj, OBE -for contributions to neuropathology We are delighted to have our faculty members being part of this prestigious awards.
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Daniel Walsh FRCS@DanielWalshFRCS
31 Dec 2024
Congratulations to my old friend Prof. Keyomars Ashkan who is made an MBE in the New Years Honours. Richly deserved Ash.
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NCA Research NHS@NCAresearchNHS
13 Sep 2024
Looking forward to hearing latest from @myESMO over next 5 days - @gjbrainresearch colleagues Prof Gareth Evans, Prof Martin McCabe & Dr Gerben Borst are among Manchester experts speaking at this cancer congress attended by 30,000 delegates. @manchesterbrc @TheChristieNHS
Prof Gareth Evans, Prof Martin McCabe, Dr Gerben Borst

ALT Prof Gareth Evans, Prof Martin McCabe, Dr Gerben Borst
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A year later, still inspiring… Follow Laura Way: help to fight brain cancer! #BeKind #BeBrave #BeSilly #BeHonest It’s #BeMoreLauraDay ! #TheStarsWillBeThere #glioblastoma @BrainTumourOrg @shitscaredmum @braintumourrsch
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James Balogun@BalogunJames
19 Mar 2024
An addition to the delineation of peds brain tumors in SSA. Great job @ADN_Nyalundja and the team @clairekarekezi @tsegaze @Thango02 and Ulrick. #better care for our patients. @SNOSSA1 @ISPNeurosurgery
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Prof Chris Uff | Insights@chrisuff
27 Feb 2024
Hot off the press! Proof of concept non-invasive ICP monitor using NIRS. link.springer.com/article/10…

A pilot clinical study to estimate intracranial pressure utilising cerebral photoplethysmograms in...

Acta Neurochirurgica - In this research, a non-invasive intracranial pressure (nICP) optical sensor was developed and evaluated in a clinical pilot study. The technology relied on infrared light to...

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Some helpful #coffee science: add water to coffee beans before grinding them: better taste is promised! Here the scientific explanation cell.com/matter/pdf/S2590-23… @CellPressNews
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SBNS@The_SBNS
23 Jun 2023
We are delighted to inform you that Prof. Peter Hutchinson (Hutch) @pja_hutch has been elected to become the next SBNS President.Β  He will take up his appointment as President Elect at the AGM during SBNS Meeting in London
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EANO@EANOassociation
20 Jun 2023
Intraoperative MRI-Guided Resection Is Not Superior to 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Guidance in Newly Diagnosed #Glioblastoma: A Prospective Controlled Multicenter Clinical Trial. ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO… #btsm #imrt #5ala #neurosurgery @JCO_ASCO

Intraoperative MRI-Guided Resection Is Not Superior to 5-Aminolevulinic Acid Guidance in Newly...

PURPOSEProspective data suggested a superiority of intraoperative MRI (iMRI) over 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) for achieving complete resections of contrast enhancement in glioblastoma surgery. We...

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Giuseppe Lanzino, MD@GLanzinoNSGY
20 Jun 2023
Great presentation by ⁦@BenElderMD⁩ on pharmacological interventions to improve bone density in patients undergoing spine surgery at the NSA ⁦@MayoNsgyRes⁩ ⁦@MayoClinicNeuro⁩
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The BMJ
@bmj_latest
18 Jun 2023
Whenever the NHS is in trouble, you can guarantee that someone will say the real problem is too many managers. @HelenRSalisbury explains why this kind of sloppy thinking makes her sigh deeply bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p133…

Helen Salisbury: In praise of managers

Whenever the NHS is in trouble (all the time, over the past 10 years) you can guarantee that someone will say the real problem is too many managers. If we just stopped wasting money on this unprodu...

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EANO@EANOassociation
8 Jun 2023
acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wi… Proteome profiling of salivary small extracellular vesicles in glioblastoma patients #biomarkers #btsm #GBM #ECV @cancer
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Joe Sebastian@neuro_gasman
12 May 2023
Huge congratulations to Dr Craig Carroll, Consultant Anaesthetist at Salford who is the new President of the Neuro Anaesthesia and Critical Care Society @NCAlliance_NHS @MCCN_UK @MCRskullbase @drcdcc @SCOMajorTrauma
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Daniel Walsh FRCS@DanielWalshFRCS
6 May 2023
Aneurysm management in patients over 80 years old with good grade subarachnoid haemorrhage: British Journal of Neurosurgery: Vol 0, No 0 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Aneurysm management in patients over 80 years old with good grade subarachnoid haemorrhage

An increasing proportion of aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage (aSAH) occurs in older patients, in whom there is widespread variability in treatment rates due to a different balance of risks. Our ...

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Interesting study. Promising in principle, but too early stage to draw conclusions! Looking forward for next phase results! doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(2… #glioblastoma #ultrasound @TheLancetOncol @BNOSofficial @EANOassociation
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Angelos Kolias@ag_kolias
23 Apr 2023
⚠️ @rescueasdh results just published. "Decompressive Craniectomy versus Craniotomy for Acute Subdural Hematoma" @NEJM. nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE… πŸ™ to all collaborators, patients and their relatives. #neurosurgery #nsgy #neurotrauma #TBI #AANS2023 @BNTRC Press release πŸ‘‡
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The BMJ
@bmj_latest
16 Apr 2023
Laundering surgical gowns, drapes, and instrument table drapes rather than throwing away single use versions of these items could go a long way to reducing the carbon footprint of surgery, researchers have said bmj.com/content/381/bmj.p853

Reusable gowns and drapes in surgery could reduce carbon footprint, analysis shows

Laundering surgical gowns, drapes, and instrument table drapes rather than throwing away single use versions of these items could go a long way to reducing the carbon footprint of surgery, research...

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Giuseppe Lanzino, MD@GLanzinoNSGY
19 Mar 2023
Clinical presentation, hemorrhage risk, and outcome in patients with familial cavernous malformations: a pragmatic … pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3693… Practical data on demographics and outcome for familial cavernous malformations @AngiomaAllineac @MayoClinicNeuro @MayoNsgyRes

Clinical presentation, hemorrhage risk, and outcome in patients with familial cavernous malformat...

The authors' findings provide clinically useful information on hemorrhage rate, seizure rate, the likelihood of surgery, and functional outcome. These findings can be helpful to practicing physicians...

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Dr Hannah Stockley πŸ’™@HannahStockley8
3 Mar 2023
Celebrating our first year of providing 24/7 MT for @GMNISDN Thank you to everyone who came & made it a fantastic evening πŸŒŸπŸŽ‰ @CESmith91 @SCORadiology @MCCN_UK @NCADandPGroup @TheStrokeAssoc @UKNGNeuro @RCRadiologists @Deborah71247971 @HargrovesDavid
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