Dr. Michael Fred Stiefel MD
Neurosurgeon
19 Bradhurst Ave Suite 2800 Hawthorne NY, 10532About
Dr. Michael Stiefel practices Neurological Surgery in Hawthorne, NY. As a Neurological Surgeon, Dr. Stiefel 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
Va Commonwealth Univ, Med Coll of Va Sch of Med, Richmond Va 2000
Board Certification
Neurological SurgeryAmerican Board of Neurological SurgeryABNS
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Neuroprotective effect of hypothermia on neuronal injury in diffuse traumatic brain injury coupled with hypoxia and hypotension.
- Cation dysfunction associated with cerebral ischemia followed by reperfusion: a comparison of microdialysis and ion-selective electrode methods.
- Cerebral cortical oxygenation: a pilot study.
- Packed red blood cell transfusion increases local cerebral oxygenation.
- Secondary ischemia impairing the restoration of ion homeostasis following traumatic brain injury.
- Reduced mortality rate in patients with severe traumatic brain injury treated with brain tissue oxygen monitoring.
- Multimodality monitoring in the management of refractory intracranial hypertension: a case report.
- Successful microsurgical extraction of a migrated coil in a pediatric patient after failed endovascular closure of a Blalock-Taussig shunt. Case report.
- Brain tissue oxygen tension in clinical brain death: a case series.
- Acute paraparesis from hemorrhagic spinal ependymoma: diagnostic dilemma and surgical management. Report of two cases and review of the literature.
- Multiple ruptured cerebral aneurysms in a child with Takayasu arteritis.
- Operative intracranial infection following craniotomy.
- Cumulative radiation dose in patients admitted with subarachnoid hemorrhage: a prospective study using a self-developing film badge.
- Onyx pulmonary artery embolization after treatment of a low-flow dural arteriovenous fistula: case report.
Treatments
- Gamma Knife Radiosurgery
Fellowships
- University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA - Fellowship Interventional Neuroradiology
- Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, AZ - Endovascular Neurosurgery
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