Luis Savastano, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Neurological Surgery
School of Medicine

He has experience in both minimally invasive microsurgery and endovascular techniques, and the conditions he treats include brain aneurysms, Moyamoya disease (a rare disorder that causes major blood vessels leading to a child's brain to narrow), arteriovenous malformations (abnormal tangles of arteries and veins in the brain that can rupture) and carotid artery disease.

In his research, Savastano develops minimally invasive technologies and techniques to better diagnose and treat cerebrovascular diseases (those affecting blood flow to the brain). He has pioneered several endovascular devices and techniques to improve outcomes for patients with these conditions.

Savastano earned his medical degree at National University of Cuyo in Argentina, where he also earned a master’s degree in anatomy and a doctorate in medicine. He completed a residency in neurosurgery and a fellowship in neurointerventional radiology at the University of Michigan. Before joining the UCSF faculty, he was an assistant professor of neurosurgery and radiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

• Strategies to Improve Drug Delivery Across the Blood-Brain Barrier for Glioblastoma.
  Current neurology and neuroscience reports 2024 Narsinh KH, Perez E, Haddad AF, Young JS, Savastano L, Villanueva-Meyer JE, Winkler E, de Groot J
• Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Evacuation of Cerebellar Intracerebral Hemorrhage: An Illustrative Case Report.
  Stroke 2024 Elguindy MM, Haddad AF, Lu A, Savastano LE
• Middle meningeal artery embolization for chronic subdural hematoma: A single-center experience and predictive modeling of outcomes.
  The neuroradiology journal 2023 Cohen-Cohen S, Jabal MS, Rinaldo L, Savastano LE, Lanzino G, Cloft H, Brinjikji W
• Patient-reported outcome measures in cerebrovascular neurosurgery.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2023 Ramesh R, Haddad AF, Letchuman V, Lee YM, Rinaldo L, Abla AA, Savastano LE, Raper DMS
• Middle meningeal artery embolization with polyvinyl alcohol particles in a patient with ophthalmic artery origin from middle meningeal artery: Case report and technical note.
  Interventional neuroradiology : journal of peritherapeutic neuroradiology, surgical procedures and related neurosciences 2023 Lee YM, Mattay RR, Haddad AF, Rinaldo L, Savastano L
• Vagus nerve stimulation using an endovascular electrode array.
  Journal of neural engineering 2023 Nicolai EN, Larco JA, Madhani SI, Asirvatham SJ, Chang SY, Ludwig KA, Savastano LE, Worrell GA
• Endovascular revascularization of chronically occluded common carotid artery for symptomatic cerebral hypoperfusion.
  Interventional neuroradiology : journal of peritherapeutic neuroradiology, surgical procedures and related neurosciences 2023 Oushy S, Borg N, Madhani SI, Brinjikji W, Savastano LE
• Carotid Artery Tortuosity and Internal Carotid Artery Plaque Composition.
  Clinical neuroradiology 2023 Benson JC, Shahid A, Larson A, Brinjikji W, Nasr D, Saba L, Lanzino G, Savastano LE
• Intraplaque hemorrhage on magnetic resonance angiography: How often do signal abnormalities persist on follow-up imaging?
  Clinical neurology and neurosurgery 2023 Benson JC, Shahid A, Larson AS, Brinjikji W, Nasr D, Saba L, Lanzino G, Savastano LE
• Associations between medications and carotid artery plaque morphology using semi-automated CTA analyses.
  Clinical neurology and neurosurgery 2023 Benson JC, Nardi V, Bois MC, Saba L, Brinjikji W, Savastano L, Lanzino G, Lerman A
• Revascularization of a Complex Case of Vertebrobasilar Insufficiency with Occipital Artery-Anterior Inferior Cerebellar Artery Bypass.
  World neurosurgery 2023 Madhani SI, Oushy S, Savastano L
• Pituitary adenomas and cerebrovascular disease: A review on pathophysiology, prevalence, and treatment.
  Frontiers in endocrinology 2022 Osorio RC, Oh JY, Choudhary N, Lad M, Savastano L, Aghi MK
• Construction and Validation of a Benchtop Model for Testing of Mechanical Thrombectomy Devices for Pulmonary Embolism.
  Cardiovascular and interventional radiology 2022 Madhani SI, Larco JA, Liu Y, Abbasi M, Shahid AH, Yasin O, Sears V, Morris J, Rosenthal M, Baron S, Savastano L
• Vessel wall imaging features of Moyamoya disease in a North American population: patterns of negative remodelling, contrast enhancement, wall thickening, and stenosis.
  BMC medical imaging 2022 Larson AS, Klaas JP, Johnson MP, Benson JC, Shlapak D, Lanzino G, Savastano LE, Lehman VT
• Electroencephalogram and heart rate variability features as predictors of responsiveness to vagus nerve stimulation in patients with epilepsy: a systematic review.
  Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery 2022 Madhani SI, Abbasi M, Liu Y, Larco JA, Nicolai E, Worrell G, Savastano L
• Evaluation of an in vivo preclinical model for human middle meningeal artery embolization using the posterior intercostal artery of the swine.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2022 Arturo Larco JL, Madhani SI, Liu Y, Abbasi M, Lylyk PN, Benike A, Shahid A, Tekin B, Quinton R, Savastano LE
• The "Michelangelo Code": The Quest for Universal Truth.
  The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry 2022 Savastano LE, Morreale RF, Eliasoph PI, Forcht-Dagi T, Nijensohn DE
• Thirty-Day Stroke and Mortality After Carotid Revascularization Among Octogenarians with Symptomatic Carotid Stenosis: Real-World Evidence from a National Surgical Quality Registry.
  World neurosurgery 2022 Madhani SI, Alvi MA, Pando A, Alotaibi NM, Lanzino G, Al-Omran M, Savastano L
• "Near-Clinical" Testing of Neuroendovascular Technology in a "Live" Human Cadaveric Model.
  World neurosurgery 2022 Larco JA, Madhani SI, Liu Y, Savastano LE
• International Union of Angiology (IUA) consensus paper on imaging strategies in atherosclerotic carotid artery imaging: From basic strategies to advanced approaches.
  Atherosclerosis 2022 Saba L, Antignani PL, Gupta A, Cau R, Paraskevas KI, Poredos P, Wasserman B, Kamel H, Avgerinos ED, Salgado R, Caobelli F, Aluigi L, Savastano L, Brown M, Hatsukami T, Hussein E, Suri JS, Mansilha A, …
• Unifying theory of carotid plaque disruption based on structural phenotypes and forces expressed at the lumen/wall interface.
  Stroke and vascular neurology 2022 Savastano L, Mousavi H, Liu Y, Khalsa SSS, Zheng Y, Davis E, Reddy A, Brinjikji W, Bhambri A, Cockrum J, Pandey AS, Thompson BG, Gordon D, Seibel EJ, Yonas H
• Dynamic Vertebral Artery Compression by Solitary Osteochondroma Presenting With Recurrent Posterior Circulation Strokes.
  Stroke 2022 Oushy S, Clarke M, Savastano LE, Brinjikji W, Klaas JP
• Bibliometric Trends in Open Surgical and Endovascular Cerebrovascular Research.
  Cureus 2022 Yuen J, Jabal MS, Savastano LE, Kallmes DF
• Correlation of von Willebrand factor and platelets with acute ischemic stroke etiology and revascularization outcome: an immunohistochemical study.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2022 Mereuta OM, Abbasi M, Arturo Larco JL, Dai D, Liu Y, Arul S, Kadirvel R, Hanel RA, Yoo AJ, Almekhlafi MA, Layton KF, Delgado Almandoz JE, Kvamme P, Mendes Pereira V, Jahromi BS, Nogueira RG, Gounis MJ…
• Comparison of Stroke Risk Factors between Symptomatic and Asymptomatic Patients in a North American Moyamoya Disease Cohort.
  Cerebrovascular diseases extra 2022 Kumar M, Larson A, Jabal MS, Rinaldo L, Savastano L, Lanzino G, Meyer F, Lehman V, Klaas J
• Intra-procedural cerebral sinus thrombosis during endovascular treatment of idiopathic intracranial hypertension.
  The neuroradiology journal 2022 Larco JA, Abbasi M, Kadirvel R, Kallmes DF, Savastano LE, Brinjikji W
• Change of Heart: The Underexplored Role of Plaque Hemorrhage in the Evaluation of Stroke of Undetermined Etiology.
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2022 Holmes DR, Alkhouli MA, Klaas JP, Brinjikji W, Savastano LE, Lanzino G, Benson JC
• Use of intravascular optical coherence tomography to confirm the diagnosis of a carotid web in a patient with recurrent ipsilateral embolic strokes and evaluate the response to stenting.
  Interventional neuroradiology : journal of peritherapeutic neuroradiology, surgical procedures and related neurosciences 2022 Oushy S, Flemming KD, Cloft H, Savastano LE
• Human "live cadaver" neurovascular model for proximal and distal mechanical thrombectomy in stroke.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2022 Arturo Larco JL, Madhani SI, Liu Y, Abbasi M, Shahid AH, Mereuta OM, Kadirvel R, Cloft HJ, Kallmes DF, Brinjikji W, Savastano L
• Carotid artery endarterectomy in patients with symptomatic non-stenotic carotid artery disease.
  Stroke and vascular neurology 2022 Nardi V, Benson JC, Larson AS, Brinjikji W, Saba L, Meyer FB, Lanzino G, Lerman A, Savastano LE
• Extra-Intimal Carotid Endarterectomy: Two-Dimensional Microsurgical Approach.
  World neurosurgery 2022 Madhani SI, Oushy S, Savastano L
• Reassessing the Carotid Artery Plaque "Rim Sign" on CTA: A New Analysis with Histopathologic Confirmation.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2022 Benson JC, Nardi V, Madhavan AA, Bois MC, Saba L, Savastano L, Lerman A, Lanzino G
• Histological composition of retrieved emboli in acute ischemic stroke is independent of pre-thrombectomy alteplase use.
  Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association 2022 Brinjikji W, Abbasi M, Mereuta OM, Fitzgerald S, Larco JA, Dai D, Kadirvel R, Nogueira RG, Kvamme P, Layton KF, Delgado JE, Hanel RA, Pereira VM, Almekhlafi MA, Yoo AJ, Jahromi BS, Gounis MJ, Patel BM…
• Anatomy of Spinal Venous Drainage for the Neurointerventionalist: From Puncture Site to Intervertebral Foramen.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2022 Borg N, Cutsforth-Gregory J, Oushy S, Huynh T, Savastano LE, Cloft HJ, Lanzino G, Brinjikji W
• Clinical and imaging outcomes of cerebrospinal fluid-venous fistula embolization.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2022 Brinjikji W, Garza I, Whealy M, Kissoon N, Atkinson JLD, Savastano L, Madhavan A, Cutsforth-Gregory J
• Arterial Collapse during Thrombectomy for Stroke: Clinical Evidence and Experimental Findings in Human Brains and In Vivo Models.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2022 Liu Y, Gebrezgiabhier D, Zheng Y, Shih AJ, Chaudhary N, Pandey AS, Larco JLA, Madhani SI, Abbasi M, Shahid AH, Quinton RA, Kadirvel R, Brinjikji W, Kallmes DF, Savastano LE
• Surgical Techniques and Nuances for Superior Cervical Ganglionectomy and Decentralization in Rats.
  Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2022 Madhani SI, Klein DC, Muñoz EM, Savastano LE
• Postprocedural Thrombosis following Endovascular Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysm with Flow Diverters or Coiling: A Histologic Study.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2021 Larco JA, Abbasi M, Liu Y, Dai D, Lanzino G, Savastano LE, Cloft H, Kallmes DF, Kadirvel R, Brinjikji W
• Quantification of clot spatial heterogeneity and its impact on thrombectomy.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2021 Liu Y, Brinjikji W, Abbasi M, Dai D, Arturo Larco JL, Madhani SI, Shahid AH, Mereuta OM, Nogueira RG, Kvamme P, Layton KF, Delgado Almandoz JE, Hanel RA, Mendes Pereira V, Almekhlafi MA, Yoo AJ, …
• Correlation of Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio with Expression of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Within Stroke Emboli.
  Interventional neuroradiology : journal of peritherapeutic neuroradiology, surgical procedures and related neurosciences 2021 Larco JA, Abbasi M, Madhani SI, Mereuta MO, Liu Y, Dai D, Kadirvel R, Savastano L, Kallmes DF, Brinjikji W
• Diverse thrombus composition in thrombectomy stroke patients with longer time to recanalization.
  Thrombosis research 2021 Abbasi M, Arturo Larco J, Mereuta MO, Liu Y, Fitzgerald S, Dai D, Kadirvel R, Savastano L, Kallmes DF, Brinjikji W
• Thrombus Histology as It Relates to Mechanical Thrombectomy: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review.
  Neurosurgery 2021 Bhambri A, Adapa AR, Liu Y, Boeckh-Behrens T, Procházka V, Hernández-Fernández F, Barbella-Aponte RA, Hashimoto T, Savastano LE, Gemmete JJ, Chaudhary N, Shih AJ, Pandey AS
• Carotid Plaques From Symptomatic Patients With Mild Stenosis Is Associated With Intraplaque Hemorrhage.
  Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) 2021 Nardi V, Benson C, Bois MC, Saba L, Larson AS, Özcan I, Ahmad A, Morse DW, Meyer FB, Brinjikji W, Lanzino G, Lerman LO, Savastano LE, Lerman A
• Evaluation and treatment of headache associated with moyamoya disease - a narrative review.
  Cephalalgia : an international journal of headache 2021 Chiang CC, Shahid AH, Harriott AM, Tietjen GE, Savastano LE, Klaas JP, Lanzino G
• Transvenous embolization of a cerebrospinal fluid-venous fistula for the treatment of spontaneous intracranial hypotension.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2021 Borg N, Oushy S, Savastano L, Brinjikji W
• Intraplaque CTA characteristics as predictors of symptomatology: a semiautomated volumetric analysis.
  Emergency radiology 2021 Benson JC, Savastano L, Nardi V, Lanzino G, Lerman A, Brinjikji W
• The social media conundrum.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2021 Toth G, Savastano L, Jagadeesan BD
• A Thrombectomy Model Based on Ex Vivo Whole Human Brains.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2021 Liu Y, Larco JLA, Madhani SI, Shahid AH, Quinton RA, Kadirvel R, Kallmes DF, Brinjikji W, Savastano LE
• Asystole during Onyx embolization of 64-year-old patient with dural arteriovenous fistula.
  The neuroradiology journal 2021 Malik MH, Brinjikji W, Savastano LE
• Correlation between computed tomography angiography and histology of carotid artery atherosclerosis: Can semi-automated imaging software predict a plaque's composition?
  Interventional neuroradiology : journal of peritherapeutic neuroradiology, surgical procedures and related neurosciences 2021 Benson JC, Nardi V, Bois MC, Saba L, Brinjikji W, Savastano L, Lanzino G, Lerman A
• Mechanisms of fibrinolysis resistance and potential targets for thrombolysis in acute ischaemic stroke: lessons from retrieved stroke emboli.
  Stroke and vascular neurology 2021 Brinjikji W, Madalina Mereuta O, Dai D, Kallmes DF, Savastano L, Liu Y, Nimjee SM, Nogueira RG, Abbasi M, Kadirvel R
• Endarterectomy for symptomatic non-stenotic carotids: a systematic review and descriptive analysis.
  Stroke and vascular neurology 2021 Larson A, Nardi V, Brinjikji W, Benson JC, Lanzino G, Savastano L
• Per-pass analysis of recanalization and good neurological outcome in thrombectomy for stroke: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
  Interventional neuroradiology : journal of peritherapeutic neuroradiology, surgical procedures and related neurosciences 2021 Arturo Larco J, Abbasi M, Liu Y, Madhani SI, Shahid AH, Kadirvel R, Brinjikji W, Savastano LE
• Normalized intraplaque hemorrhage signal on MP-RAGE as a marker for acute ischemic neurological events.
  The neuroradiology journal 2021 Larson AS, Brinjikji W, Kroll NJ, Savastano L, Huston J, Benson JC
• Failure modes and effects analysis of mechanical thrombectomy for stroke discovered in human brains.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2021 Liu Y, Gebrezgiabhier D, Reddy AS, Davis E, Zheng Y, Arturo Larco JL, Shih AJ, Pandey AS, Savastano LE
• Implementation and Rationale for a Unified Clinical and Imaging Protocol for Evaluation and Treatment of Moyamoya Angiopathy: A Single Institutional Experience.
  Frontiers in neurology 2021 Larson AS, Lehman VT, Savastano LE, Lanzino G, Campeau NG, Welker KM, Klaas JP
• Histological evaluation of acute ischemic stroke thrombi may indicate the occurrence of vessel wall injury during mechanical thrombectomy.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2021 Mereuta OM, Abbasi M, Fitzgerald S, Dai D, Kadirvel R, Hanel RA, Yoo AJ, Almekhlafi MA, Layton KF, Delgado Almandoz JE, Kvamme P, Mendes Pereira V, Jahromi BS, Nogueira RG, Gounis MJ, Patel B, …
• Progressive Myelopathy From a Craniocervical Junction Dural Arteriovenous Fistula.
  Stroke 2021 Naylor RM, Topinka B, Rinaldo L, Jacobi J, Neth B, Flemming KD, Savastano LE
• Carotid Intraplaque Hemorrhage and Stenosis: At What Stage of Plaque Progression Does Intraplaque Hemorrhage Occur, and When is It Most Likely to Be Associated with Symptoms?
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2021 Larson AS, Brinjikji W, Savastano L, Rabinstein AA, Saba L, Huston J, Benson JC
• Novel Human Acute Ischemic Stroke Blood Clot Analogs for In Vitro Thrombectomy Testing.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2021 Fitzgerald ST, Liu Y, Dai D, Mereuta OM, Abbasi M, Larco JLA, Douglas AS, Kallmes DF, Savastano L, Doyle KM, Brinjikji W
• Per pass analysis of thrombus composition retrieved by mechanical thrombectomy.
  Interventional neuroradiology : journal of peritherapeutic neuroradiology, surgical procedures and related neurosciences 2021 Abbasi M, Kvamme P, Layton KF, Hanel RA, Almekhlafi MA, Delgado JE, Pereira VM, Patel BM, Jahromi BS, Yoo AJ, Nogueira RG, Gounis MJ, Fitzgerald S, Mereuta OM, Dai D, Kadirvel R, Kallmes DF, Doyle KM,…
• Iatrogenic Foreign Materials Associated with Retrieved Clot Tissue via Mechanical Thrombectomy.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2021 Abbasi M, Dai D, Liu Y, Fitzgerald S, Kadirvel R, Savastano LE, Cloft H, Kallmes DF, Brinjikji W
• Association between clot composition and stroke origin in mechanical thrombectomy patients: analysis of the Stroke Thromboembolism Registry of Imaging and Pathology.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2021 Brinjikji W, Nogueira RG, Kvamme P, Layton KF, Delgado Almandoz JE, Hanel RA, Mendes Pereira V, Almekhlafi MA, Yoo AJ, Jahromi BS, Gounis MJ, Patel B, Abbasi M, Fitzgerald S, Mereuta OM, Dai D, …
• Preclinical testing platforms for mechanical thrombectomy in stroke: a review on phantoms, in-vivo animal, and cadaveric models.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2021 Liu Y, Abbasi M, Arturo Larco JL, Kadirvel R, Kallmes DF, Brinjikji W, Savastano L
• Safety and efficacy of Angio-Seal device for transfemoral neuroendovascular procedures: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
  Interventional neuroradiology : journal of peritherapeutic neuroradiology, surgical procedures and related neurosciences 2021 Essibayi MA, Cloft H, Savastano LE, Brinjikji W
• A novel rabbit thromboembolic occlusion model.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2021 Ding YH, Fitzgerald S, Liu Y, Dai D, Jakaitis D, Doyle K, Brinjikji W, Kallmes DF, Savastano L, Kadirvel R
• Semiautomated carotid artery plaque composition: are intraplaque CT imaging features associated with cardiovascular risk factors?
  Neuroradiology 2021 Benson JC, Lanzino G, Nardi V, Savastano L, Lerman A, Brinjikji W
• A Novel Endovascular Therapy for CSF Hypotension Secondary to CSF-Venous Fistulas.
  AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology 2021 Brinjikji W, Savastano LE, Atkinson JLD, Garza I, Farb R, Cutsforth-Gregory JK
• A human brain test bed for research in large vessel occlusion stroke.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2021 Gebrezgiabhier D, Liu Y, Reddy AS, Davis E, Zheng Y, Shih AJ, Pandey AS, Savastano LE
• Systematic review and meta-analysis of current rates of first pass effect by thrombectomy technique and associations with clinical outcomes.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2021 Abbasi M, Liu Y, Fitzgerald S, Mereuta OM, Arturo Larco JL, Rizvi A, Kadirvel R, Savastano L, Brinjikji W, Kallmes DF
• Variations in the Presence of Carotid Intraplaque Hemorrhage Across Age Categories: What Age Groups Are Most Likely to Benefit From Plaque Imaging?
  Frontiers in neurology 2020 Larson AS, Benson JC, Brinjikji W, Savastano L, Lanzino G, Huston J, Nasr D
• Carotid artery revascularization: endarterectomy versus endovascular therapy.
  Journal of neurosurgical sciences 2020 Oushy SH, Essibayi MA, Savastano LE, Lanzino G
• Left-sided carotid arteries have a higher prevalence of intraplaque hemorrhage than right-sided: An asymmetric conundrum.
  The neuroradiology journal 2020 Larson AS, Brinjikji W, Savastano L, Scharf E, Huston J, Benson JC
• Letter: An International Investigation Into the COVID-19 Pandemic and Workforce Depletion in Highly Specialized Neurointerventional Units - Insights From Stroke Thrombectomy and Aneurysm Registry and Endovascular Neurosurgery Research Group.
  Neurosurgery 2020 Alawieh A, Al Kasab S, Almallouhi E, Levitt MR, Jabbour PM, Sweid A, Starke RM, Saini V, Fargen KM, Wolfe SQ, Arthur AS, Goyal N, Fragata I, Maier I, Matouk C, Howard BM, Grossberg JA, Cawley M, Kan P…
• Embolic Stroke of Undetermined Source: The Association With Carotid Intraplaque Hemorrhage.
  JACC. Cardiovascular imaging 2020 Larson AS, Nasr DM, Rizvi A, Alzuabi M, Seyedsaadat SM, Lanzino G, Huston J, Lehman VT, Savastano LE, Brinjikji W
• Standardized Fabrication Method of Human-Derived Emboli with Histologic and Mechanical Quantification for Stroke Research.
  Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association 2020 Liu Y, Reddy AS, Cockrum J, Ajulufoh MC, Zheng Y, Shih AJ, Pandey AS, Savastano LE
• Carotid Intraplaque Hemorrhage Is Associated with Cardiovascular Risk Factors.
  Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland) 2020 Larson AS, Brinjikji W, Savastano LE, Huston Iii J, Benson JC
• Cardiac manifestations in a western moyamoya disease population: a single-center descriptive study and review.
  Neurosurgical review 2020 Larson AS, Savastano L, Klaas J, Lanzino G
• Coronavirus Disease 2019 and the Cerebrovascular-Cardiovascular Systems: What Do We Know So Far?
  Journal of the American Heart Association 2020 Larson AS, Savastano L, Kadirvel R, Kallmes DF, Hassan AE, Brinjikji W
• Construction of a comprehensive endovascular test bed for research and device development in mechanical thrombectomy in stroke.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2020 Reddy AS, Liu Y, Cockrum J, Gebrezgiabhier D, Davis E, Zheng Y, Pandey AS, Shih AJ, Savastano LE
• Analysis of human emboli and thrombectomy forces in large-vessel occlusion stroke.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2020 Liu Y, Zheng Y, Reddy AS, Gebrezgiabhier D, Davis E, Cockrum J, Gemmete JJ, Chaudhary N, Griauzde JM, Pandey AS, Shih AJ, Savastano LE
• Single Cell Sequencing of the Pineal Gland: The Next Chapter.
  Frontiers in endocrinology 2019 Coon SL, Fu C, Hartley SW, Holtzclaw L, Mays JC, Kelly MC, Kelley MW, Mullikin JC, Rath MF, Savastano LE, Klein DC
• Posterior Fossa Craniotomy for Adherent Fourth Ventricle Neurocysticercosis.
  Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.) 2019 Franko LR, Pandian B, Gupta A, Savastano LE, Chen KS, Riddell J, Orringer DA
• Incidence of the initiation of comfort care immediately following emergent neurosurgical and endovascular procedures.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2018 Linzey JR, Burke JF, Nadel JL, Williamson CA, Savastano LE, Wilkinson DA, Pandey AS
• Ventriculoscopic Surgery for Cystic Retrochiasmatic Craniopharyngiomas: Indications, Surgical Technique, and Short-Term Patient Outcomes.
  Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.) 2018 Hollon TC, Savastano LE, Altshuler D, Barkan AL, Sullivan SE
• Delayed extrusion of embolic coils into the airway after embolization of an external carotid artery pseudoaneurysm.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2018 Wilseck Z, Savastano L, Chaudhary N, Pandey AS, Griauzde J, Sankaran S, Wilkinson D, Gemmete JJ
• Late recanalization of basilar artery occlusion in a previously healthy 17-month-old child.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2018 Wilkinson DA, Pandey AS, Garton HJ, Savastano L, Griauzde J, Chaudhary N, Gemmete JJ
• Primary diffuse leptomeningeal melanomatosis: Description and recommendations.
  Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia 2018 Saadeh YS, Hollon TC, Fisher-Hubbard A, Savastano LE, McKeever PE, Orringer DA
• Infected symptomatic carotid artery atheroma concurrent with bacterial endocarditis.
  BMJ case reports 2018 Saadeh YS, Savastano LE, Gendreau JL, Pandey AS
• Microvascular Brainstem Ischemia After Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery: A Clinical and Microanatomic Study.
  World neurosurgery 2018 Hollon TC, Savastano LE, Argersinger DP, Quint DJ, Thompson BG
• Late recanalization of basilar artery occlusion in a previously healthy 17-month-old child.
  BMJ case reports 2017 Wilkinson DA, Pandey AS, Garton HJ, Savastano L, Griauzde J, Chaudhary N, Gemmete JJ
• Scanning Fiber Angioscopy: A Multimodal Intravascular Imaging Platform for Carotid Atherosclerosis.
  Neurosurgery 2017 Savastano LE, Seibel EJ
• Delayed extrusion of embolic coils into the airway after embolization of an external carotid artery pseudoaneurysm.
  BMJ case reports 2017 Wilseck Z, Savastano L, Chaudhary N, Pandey AS, Griauzde J, Sankaran S, Wilkinson DA, Gemmete JJ
• Optic neuropathy after anterior communicating artery aneurysm clipping: 3 cases and techniques to address a correctable pitfall.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2017 Linzey JR, Chen KS, Savastano L, Thompson BG, Pandey AS
• Korsakoff syndrome from retrochiasmatic suprasellar lesions: rapid reversal after relief of cerebral compression in 4 cases.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2017 Savastano LE, Hollon TC, Barkan AL, Sullivan SE
• Multimodal laser-based angioscopy for structural, chemical and biological imaging of atherosclerosis.
  Nature biomedical engineering 2017 Savastano LE, Zhou Q, Smith A, Vega K, Murga-Zamalloa C, Gordon D, McHugh J, Zhao L, Wang M, Pandey A, Thompson BG, Xu J, Zhang J, Chen YE, Seibel EJ, Wang TD
• Diagnostic and Interventional Optical Angioscopy in Ex Vivo Carotid Arteries.
  Operative neurosurgery (Hagerstown, Md.) 2017 Savastano LE, Chaudhary N, Murga-Zamalloa C, Wang M, Wang T, Thompson BG
• Simulator and 2 tools: Validation of performance measures from a novel neurosurgery simulation model using the current Standards framework.
  Surgery 2016 Rooney DM, Tai BL, Sagher O, Shih AJ, Wilkinson DA, Savastano LE
• Neurotranscriptomics: The Effects of Neonatal Stimulus Deprivation on the Rat Pineal Transcriptome.
  PloS one 2015 Hartley SW, Coon SL, Savastano LE, Mullikin JC, NISC Comparative Sequencing Program, Fu C, Klein DC
• Microvascular anatomy of the cerebellar parafloccular perforating space.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2015 Sosa P, Dujovny M, Onyekachi I, Sockwell N, Cremaschi F, Savastano LE
• Acute ischemic stroke in a child due to basilar artery occlusion treated successfully with a stent retriever.
  Journal of neurointerventional surgery 2015 Savastano L, Gemmete JJ, Pandey AS, Roark C, Chaudhary N
• Acute ischemic stroke in a child due to basilar artery occlusion treated successfully with a stent retriever.
  BMJ case reports 2015 Savastano L, Gemmete JJ, Pandey AS, Roark C, Chaudhary N
• Development of a 3D-printed external ventricular drain placement simulator: technical note.
  Journal of neurosurgery 2015 Tai BL, Rooney D, Stephenson F, Liao PS, Sagher O, Shih AJ, Savastano LE
• Expression and cellular localization of the transcription factor NeuroD1 in the developing and adult rat pineal gland.
  Journal of pineal research 2015 Castro AE, Benitez SG, Farias Altamirano LE, Savastano LE, Patterson SI, Muñoz EM
• Stent-assisted coil embolization of a symptomatic middle cerebral artery aneurysm in an infant.
  Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics 2014 Savastano LE, Chaudhary N, Gemmete JJ, Garton HJ, Maher CO, Pandey AS
• Sciatic nerve injury: a simple and subtle model for investigating many aspects of nervous system damage and recovery.
  Journal of neuroscience methods 2014 Savastano LE, Laurito SR, Fitt MR, Rasmussen JA, Gonzalez Polo V, Patterson SI
• New evidence of prefrontal lobotomy in the last months of the illness of Eva Perón.
  World neurosurgery 2011 Nijensohn DE, Savastano LE, Kaplan AD, Laws ER
• A standardized surgical technique for rat superior cervical ganglionectomy.
  Journal of neuroscience methods 2010 Savastano LE, Castro AE, Fitt MR, Rath MF, Romeo HE, Muñoz EM