Research in Surgery

Overview

The area of Research in Surgery includes more than 50 investigators distributed in five groups of research focused respectively on general and thoracic surgery, cranio-maxillofacial surgery, spinal disorders, skeletal reconstructive surgery and musculoskeletal tissue engineering. Their activity combines basic and clinical research together with robotics and virtual surgical planning. Their aims are to advance in the understanding of the causes and mechanisms underlying surgical pathologies, to deliver new knowledge and better integrated patient-centered solutions, improving surgical care and outcomes.

Publications

93

total

360

impact factor

3.87

average impact factor

Group Leader: Ferrán Pellisé

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The Vall d’Hebron Spine Research Unit is a growing multidisciplinary group of professionals devoted to Spinal Disorders with an increasing impact in terms of number of publications, associated impact factor and research funding. Since 2010, we have increased the yearly published manuscripts by 80%. In 2019 we published a total of 26 manuscripts and won the 2^nd best podium presentation award at the Spanish Spine Society Meeting.

During 2019 we have been awarded with 3 new competitive research grants and started working on a proposal to be submitted to the European call Horizon 2020 (SC1-BHC-06-2020: Digital diagnostics – developing tools for supporting clinical decisions by integrating various diagnostic data) including 20 hospitals and 6 non-clinical partners. New synergies with other research centers and universities have been established. We hope to expand this network in the future.

One of our research projects granted by the PI2016 and finished in 2019 has been very successful, with more than 30 podium and poster presentations in both national and international meetings and 5 published manuscripts. We are still involved in the first national Phase 1 study to assess the safety and effectiveness of stem cells in acute spinal cord injury patients granted by la Marató de TV3.

16

total

46

impact factor

2^.90

average impact factor

SELECTED ARTICLES

Tuchman A; Lenke LG; Cerpa M; Fehlings MG; Lewis SJ; Shaffrey CI; Cheung KMC; Carreon LY; Dekutoski MB; Schwab FJ; Boachie-Adjei O; Kebaish K; Ames CP; Qiu Y; Matsuyama Y; Dahl BT; Mehdian H; Pellisé F; Berven SH.
Unilateral vs. Bilateral Lower Extremity Motor Deficit Following Complex Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Is there a Difference in Recovery Up to 2 Year F/U? Spine J. 2019 Mar;19(3):395-402
DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2018.08.003
IF: 3.196
Ames CP; Smith JS; Pellisé F; Kelly M; Alanay A; Acaro?lu E; Pérez-Grueso FJS; Kleinstück F; Obeid I; Shaffrey CI Jr; Vila-Casademunt A; Burton D; Lafage V; Schwab F; Shaffrey CI Sr; Bess S; Serra-Burriel M; European Spine Study Group; International Spine Study Group.
Artificial Intelligence Based Hierarchical Clustering of Patient Types and Intervention Categories in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Towards a New Classification Scheme that Predicts Quality and Value. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2019 Jan 7.
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000002974
IF: 2.903
Ames CP, Smith JS, Pellisé F, Kelly MP, Gum JL, Alanay A, Acaro?lu E, Pérez-Grueso FJS, Kleinstück FS, Obeid I, Vila-CasademuntA, Burton DC, Lafage V, Schwab FJ, Shaffrey CI, Bess S, Serra-Burriel M; European Spine Study Group, International Spine Study Group.
Development of Deployable Predictive Models for Minimal Clinically Important Difference Achievement Across the Commonly Used Health-Related Quality of Life Instruments in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2019 Aug 15;44(16):1144-1153.
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000003031.
IF: 2.903
Pellisé F, Serra-Burriel M, Smith JS, Haddad S, Kelly MP, Vila-CasademuntA, Sánchez Pérez-Grueso FJ, Bess S, Gum JL, Burton DC, Acaro?lu E, Kleinstück F, Lafage V, Obeid I, Schwab F, Shaffrey CI, Alanay A, Ames C; International Spine Study Group; European Spine Study Group.
Development and validation of risk stratification models for adult spinal deformity surgery.
J Neurosurg Spine. 2019 Jun 28:1-13. doi: [Epub ahead of print]
DOI: 10.3171/2019.3.SPINE181452.
IF: 2.998
Ames CP, Smith JS, Gum JL, Kelly M, Vila-Casademunt A, Burton DC, Hostin R, Yeramaneni S, Lafage V, Schwab FJ, Shaffrey CI, Bess S, Pellisé F, Serra-Burriel M; European Spine Study Group and International Spine Study Group. Utilization of Predictive Modeling to Determine Episode of Care Costs and to Accurately Identify Catastrophic Cost Non-Warranty Outlier Patients in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: A Step Toward Bundled Payments and Risk Sharing.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2020 Mar 1;45(5):E252-E265.
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000003242
IF: 2.903

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Research in Surgery

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Publications

Group Leader: Ferrán Pellisé

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