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Overview

Sean I Savitz is affiliated with The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on medicine, with specific contributions in subfields such as epidemiology, neurology, rehabilitation, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, and psychiatry and mental health.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Acute Ischemic Stroke Management
  • Stroke Rehabilitation and Recovery
  • Intracerebral and Subarachnoid Hemorrhage Research
  • Cerebrovascular and Carotid Artery Diseases
  • Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances
  • Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
  • Mesenchymal Stem Cell Research

Their work has been published extensively in several key venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Stroke
  • Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
  • Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
  • Neurology
  • Journal of Neuroscience Nursing

Some recent papers by Sean I Savitz reflect ongoing topics of interest in stroke research and treatment:

  • Pharmacological brain cytoprotection in acute ischaemic stroke - renewed hope in the reperfusion era, 2022, Nature Reviews Neurology
  • Top Priorities for Cerebroprotective Studies-A Paradigm Shift: Report From STAIR XI, 2021, Stroke
  • Cerebrovascular Disease in Patients with COVID-19: A Review of the Literature and Case Series, 2020, Case Reports in Neurology
  • Endovascular Thrombectomy for Acute Ischemic Strokes, 2020, Stroke
  • Recent Advances in Cell-Based Therapies for Ischemic Stroke, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Frequent co-authors contributing to their research include:

  • Anjail Sharrief
  • Jaroslaw Aronowski
  • Sujan Reddy
  • James C. Grotta
  • Jennifer E. S. Beauchamp

Best Publications

  • Update of the Stroke Therapy Academic Industry Roundtable Preclinical Recommendations

    Marc Fisher;Marc Fisher;Giora Z. Feuerstein;David W. Howells;Patricia D. Hurn

  • Functional assessments in the rodent stroke model

    Krystal L Schaar;Miranda M Brenneman;Sean I Savitz

  • Erythropoietin administration protects retinal neurons from acute ischemia-reperfusion injury

    Anna K. Junk;Antonios Mammis;Sean I. Savitz;Manjeet Singh

  • Early release of HMGB-1 from neurons after the onset of brain ischemia

    Jianhua Qiu;Masaki Nishimura;Yumei Wang;John R Sims

  • Diagnosis and initial management of cerebellar infarction

    Jonathan A Edlow;David E Newman-Toker;Sean I Savitz

  • Safety and efficacy of multipotent adult progenitor cells in acute ischaemic stroke (MASTERS): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 2 trial.

    David C Hess;Lawrence R Wechsler;Wayne M Clark;Sean I Savitz

  • Genetic and hormonal factors modulate spreading depression and transient hemiparesis in mouse models of familial hemiplegic migraine type 1

    Katharina Eikermann-Haerter;Ergin Dileköz;Chiho Kudo;Sean I. Savitz

  • Intravenous autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells for ischemic stroke

    Sean I. Savitz;Vivek Misra;Mallik Kasam;Harrinder Juneja

  • Future of neuroprotection for acute stroke: in the aftermath of the SAINT trials.

    Sean I. Savitz;Sean I. Savitz;Marc Fisher;Marc Fisher

  • Safety of tPA in stroke mimics and neuroimaging-negative cerebral ischemia.

    O. Y. Chernyshev;S. Martin-Schild;K. C. Albright;Andrew D Barreto

  • Stem Cell Therapy as an Emerging Paradigm for Stroke (STEPS) II

    Sean I. Savitz;Michael Chopp;Robert Deans;S. T. Carmichael

  • Necrostatin-1 reduces histopathology and improves functional outcome after controlled cortical impact in mice

    Zerong You;Sean I Savitz;Sean I Savitz;Jinsheng Yang;Alexei Degterev

  • Necroptosis, a novel form of caspase-independent cell death, contributes to neuronal damage in a retinal ischemia-reperfusion injury model.

    Daniel M. Rosenbaum;Alexei Degterev;Joel David;Pearl S. Rosenbaum

  • Neurotransplantation of Fetal Porcine Cells in Patients with Basal Ganglia Infarcts: A Preliminary Safety and Feasibility Study

    Sean I. Savitz;Jonathan Dinsmore;Julian Wu;Galen V. Henderson

  • Autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells enhance recovery after acute ischemic stroke in young and middle-aged rats

    Miranda Brenneman;Sushil Sharma;Matthew Harting;Roger Strong

  • Pitfalls in the diagnosis of cerebellar infarction.

    Sean I. Savitz;Louis R. Caplan;Jonathan A. Edlow

  • Endovascular Therapy for Acute Ischemic Stroke With Occlusion of the Middle Cerebral Artery M2 Segment

    Amrou Sarraj;Navdeep Sangha;Muhammad Shazam Hussain;Dolora Wisco

  • Pharmacological brain cytoprotection in acute ischaemic stroke — renewed hope in the reperfusion era

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  • Moving Rehabilitation Research Forward: Developing Consensus Statements for Rehabilitation and Recovery Research*:

    Julie Bernhardt;Karen Borschmann;Lara Boyd;S. Thomas Carmichael

  • Cell transplantation for stroke

    Sean I. Savitz;Daniel M. Rosenbaum;Jonathan H. Dinsmore;Lawrence R. Wechsler

  • IL-10 directly protects cortical neurons by activating PI-3 kinase and STAT-3 pathways

    Sushil Sharma;Bing Yang;XiaoPei Xi;James C. Grotta

Frequent Co-Authors

Louise D. McCullough
Louise D. McCullough The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Hooman Kamel
Hooman Kamel Cornell University
Michael A. Moskowitz
Michael A. Moskowitz Harvard University
Georgios Tsivgoulis
Georgios Tsivgoulis National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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