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Overview

Steven D. Glassman is affiliated with the University of Louisville in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on surgery. Their research spans several subfields including pathology and forensic medicine, pharmacology, biomedical engineering, and cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their main topics of study center around spine and intervertebral disc pathology, spinal fractures and fixation techniques, musculoskeletal pain and rehabilitation, scoliosis diagnosis and treatment, medical imaging and analysis, anesthesia and pain management, and cervical and thoracic myelopathy.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Spine Journal
  • Spine
  • Journal of Neurosurgery Spine
  • Neurosurgery
  • Spine Deformity

Notable recent papers by Steven D. Glassman are:

  • Quality Outcomes Database Spine Care Project 2012-2020: milestones achieved in a collaborative North American outcomes registry to advance value-based spine care and evolution to the American Spine Registry, 2020, Neurosurgical FOCUS
  • Neuroanesthesia Guidelines for Optimizing Transcranial Motor Evoked Potential Neuromonitoring During Deformity and Complex Spinal Surgery, 2020, Spine
  • Operative versus nonoperative treatment for adult symptomatic lumbar scoliosis at 5-year follow-up: durability of outcomes and impact of treatment-related serious adverse events, 2021, Journal of Neurosurgery Spine
  • Asymptomatic ACDF Nonunions Underestimate the True Prevalence of Radiographic Pseudarthrosis, 2020, Spine
  • A Comparison of Minimally Invasive and Open Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion for Grade 1 Degenerative Lumbar Spondylolisthesis: An Analysis of the Prospective Quality Outcomes Database, 2020, Neurosurgery

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Leah Y. Carreon
  • Jeffrey L. Gum
  • Mohamad Bydon
  • Erica F. Bisson
  • Christopher I. Shaffrey

Best Publications

  • The Impact of Positive Sagittal Balance in Adult Spinal Deformity

    Steven D Glassman;Keith Bridwell;John R Dimar;William Horton

  • Understanding the minimum clinically important difference: a review of concepts and methods.

    Anne G. Copay;Brian R. Subach;Steven D. Glassman;David W. Polly

  • Minimum clinically important difference in lumbar spine surgery patients: a choice of methods using the Oswestry Disability Index, Medical Outcomes Study questionnaire Short Form 36, and pain scales.

    Anne G. Copay;Steven D. Glassman;Brian R. Subach;Sigurd Berven

  • Correlation of radiographic parameters and clinical symptoms in adult scoliosis

    Steven D Glassman;Sigurd Berven;Keith Bridwell;William Horton

  • Adverse effects associated with high-dose recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 use in anterior cervical spine fusion

    Lisa B E Shields;George H Raque;Steven D Glassman;Mitchell Campbell

  • Perioperative complications of posterior lumbar decompression and arthrodesis in older adults.

    Leah Y. Carreon;Rolando M. Puno;John R. Dimar;Steven D. Glassman

  • Sagittal index in management of thoracolumbar burst fractures.

    J P Farcy;M Weidenbaum;S D Glassman

  • The Comprehensive Anatomical Spinal Osteotomy Classification

    Frank Schwab;Benjamin Blondel;Benjamin Blondel;Edward Chay;Jason Demakakos

  • Does treatment (nonoperative and operative) improve the two-year quality of life in patients with adult symptomatic lumbar scoliosis: a prospective multicenter evidence-based medicine study.

    Keith H. Bridwell;Steven Glassman;William Horton;Christopher Shaffrey

  • Neck Disability Index, short form-36 physical component summary, and pain scales for neck and arm pain: the minimum clinically important difference and substantial clinical benefit after cervical spine fusion

    Leah Y. Carreon;Steven D. Glassman;Mitchell J. Campbell;Paul A. Anderson

  • The impact of perioperative complications on clinical outcome in adult deformity surgery

    Steven D. Glassman;Christopher L. Hamill;Keith H. Bridwell;Frank J. Schwab

  • Clinical outcomes and fusion success at 2 years of single-level instrumented posterolateral fusions with recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2/compression resistant matrix versus iliac crest bone graft.

    John R Dimar;Steven D Glassman;Kenneth J Burkus;Leah Y Carreon

  • Perioperative complications of anterior procedures on the spine.

    Mark F. Mcdonnell;Steven D. Glassman;John R. Dimar;Rolando M. Puno

  • Defining substantial clinical benefit following lumbar spine arthrodesis.

    Steven D Glassman;Anne G Copay;Sigurd H Berven;David W Polly

  • Complications in the surgical treatment of 19,360 cases of pediatric scoliosis: a review of the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality database.

    Davis L. Reames;Justin S. Smith;Kai Ming G. Fu;David W. Polly

  • Risk-benefit assessment of surgery for adult scoliosis: an analysis based on patient age.

    Justin S. Smith;Christopher I. Shaffrey;Steven D. Glassman;Sigurd H. Berven

  • The effect of cigarette smoking and smoking cessation on spinal fusion.

    Steven D. Glassman;Steven C. Anagnost;Andrew Parker;Darlene Burke

  • The effect of postoperative nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug administration on spinal fusion.

    Glassman Sd;Rose Sm;Dimar;Puno Rm

  • Is there an optimal patient stance for obtaining a lateral 36" radiograph? A critical comparison of three techniques.

    William C. Horton;Courtney W. Brown;Keith H. Bridwell;Steven D. Glassman

  • A clinical impact classification of scoliosis in the adult.

    Frank Schwab;Jean Pierre Farcy;Keith Bridwell;Sigurd Berven

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith H. Bridwell
Keith H. Bridwell Washington University in St. Louis
Frank J. Schwab
Frank J. Schwab Hospital for Special Surgery
Praveen V. Mummaneni
Praveen V. Mummaneni University of California, San Francisco
Sigurd Berven
Sigurd Berven University of California, San Francisco
David W. Polly
David W. Polly University of Minnesota
Christopher P. Ames
Christopher P. Ames University of California, San Francisco
Justin S. Smith
Justin S. Smith University of Virginia
Lawrence G. Lenke
Lawrence G. Lenke Columbia University
Han Jo Kim
Han Jo Kim Hospital for Special Surgery

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