DR. KULA AND DR. BOLOGNESE'S EXPERIENCE

Dr. Kula and Dr. Bolognese have worked together in three Chiari Centers since 1995, with 42 years of collective experience in the Chiari field.

They have evaluated and treated several thousand Chiari patients, from all 50 States, and more than 60 foreign Nations.

More than 1,300 Chiari surgeries performed, with less than 1% incidence of CSF leak since 2003 (0% incidence of CSF leak since 2011, with the new MIST technique)

More than 600 Craniocervical Fusions performed, with less than 1% incidence of Vertebral Artery complications

More than 750 Tethered Cord surgeries performed, with less than 1% incidence of CSF leak

LEADERSHIP

  • Founders of Chiari Center, Chiari Institute, and Chiari Neurosurgical Center
  • Members of the Medical Advisory Boards of ASAP and CSF
  • Member of the Board of Directors of ASAP
  • Organizers of the 2017 ASAP National Conference
  • Educational Videos for the CMI community since 2003
  • Speakers at ASAP Conferences since 2001
  • Speakers at CSF Symposia since its inception
  • Invited speakers in Scientific Meetings worldwide

TRENDSETTING AND TECHNICAL INNOVATION

2016 – IRB approved STING Protocol

2016 – Introduced the technique of Focal Restrictive Duroplasty for the treatment of Intracranial Hypotension

2011 – Started using Condylar screws for Craniocervical Fusions (largest case series in the world to date with this technique)

2010 – Developed the MIST technique for CMI surgery, along with the Department of Syringomyelia in Beijing

2006 – Identified Occult Tethered Cord as a comorbidity in CMI

2005 – Detected the association of Styloid Hypertrophy and CMI

2005 – Started the Systematic use of Morphometrics in CMI care

2003 – Identified Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome as a comorbidity in CMI

2002 – Developed the concept of Tailored Surgical Technique in Chiari Surgery

1999 – Co-authored the seminal article “Chiari I Malformation Redefined”

1998 – Introduced the Intraoperative Color Doppler Ultrasound, to measure CSF flow

1998 – Introduced Cranioplasty in Chiari surgery

1997 – Development of Extradural Posterior Fossa Decompression technique

 

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