Our Experience
Drs Bolognese and Kula
OUR EXPERIENCE
Kula and Dr. Bolognese have worked together in three Chiari Centers since 1995, with more than 50 years of collective experience in the Chiari field.
They have evaluated and treated several thousand Chiari patients, from all 50 States,and more than 70 foreign Nations.
More than 1,500 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 1,000 Craniocervical Fusionsperformed, with less than 1% incidence of Vertebral Artery complications
More than 1,000 Tethered Cord surgeriesperformed, with less than 1% incidence of CSF leak
LEADERSHIP
- Founders of Chiari Center, Chiari Institute, Chiari Neurosurgical Center, and Chiari EDS 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
NEWS / EVENTS
- ASAP Chiari & Syringomyelia Conference, Chicago (IL), July 19-23, 2022
TRENDSETTING AND TECHNICAL INNOVATION
- 2020 – IRB approved Prospective study about Craniocervical Fusions
- 2019 – IRB approved Retrospective study about Posterior Fossa Decompressions, Craniocervical Fusions, and Section Filum Terminale
- 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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