Dr. Kern H. Guppy MD
Neurosurgeon
2025 Morse Ave Sacramento CA, 95825About
Dr. Kern Guppy practices Neurological Surgery in Sacramento, CA. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Guppy prevents, diagnoses, evaluates, and treats disorders of the autonomic, peripheral, and central nervous systems. Neurological Surgeons are trained to treat such disorders as spinal canal stenosis, herniated discs, tumors, fractures, and spinal deformities, among many others.
Education and Training
Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine 1991
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Computerized hemodynamic evaluation of the cerebral circulation for bypass.
- Intramuscular myxoma causing lumbar radiculopathy. Case report and review of the literature.
- Stereotactic, angiography-guided clipping of a distal, mycotic intracranial aneurysm using the Cosman-Roberts-Wells system: technical note.
- Metastasis to the conus medullaris: case report.
- Exercise-induced ST depression and ST/heart rate index to predict triple-vessel or left main coronary disease: a multicenter analysis.
- Sinking skin flaps, paradoxical herniation, and external brain tamponade: a review of decompressive craniectomy management.
- The use of flexion-extension magnetic resonance imaging for evaluating signal intensity changes of the cervical spinal cord.
- Algorithm to predict triple-vessel/left main coronary artery disease in patients without myocardial infarction. An international cross validation.
- The genesis of low pressure hydrocephalus.
- Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis complicated by subdural hematomas: Case series and literature review.
- The use of intraoperative navigation for complex upper cervical spine surgery.
- Does bone morphogenetic protein change the operative nonunion rates in spine
- Risk Factors Associated With 30-day Readmissions After Instrumented Spine Surgery in 14,939 Patients: 30-day readmissions after instrumented spine surgery.
- The reliability of probability analysis in the prediction of coronary artery disease in two hospitals.
- Reoperation rates for symptomatic nonunions in posterior cervical (subaxial) fusions with and without bone morphogenetic protein in a cohort of 1158 patients.
Treatments
- Pinched Nerve
- Spinal Stenosis
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