Vivek Palepu
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Recent Articles
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Jayaswal D, Kodigudla M, Kelkar A, Goel V, Palepu V
Spine Deform
. 2024 Mar;
12(4):941-952.
PMID: 38536653
Purpose: Growing rods are the gold-standard for treatment of early onset scoliosis (EOS). However, these implanted rods experience frequent fractures, requiring additional surgery. A recent study by the U.S. Food...
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Sadoughi S, Bevill G, Morgan E, Palepu V, Keaveny T, Wear K
Comput Methods Biomech Biomed Engin
. 2022 May;
26(5):508-516.
PMID: 35579530
MicroCT-based finite element models were used to compute power law relations for uniaxial compressive yield stress versus bone volume fraction for 78 cores of human trabecular bone from five anatomic...
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Agarwal A, Kodigudla M, Kelkar A, Jayaswal D, Goel V, Palepu V
N Am Spine Soc J
. 2022 Feb;
5:100043.
PMID: 35141610
Background: While growing rods are an important contribution to early-onset scoliosis treatment, rod fractures are a common complication that require reoperations. A recent retrieval analysis study performed on failed traditional...
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Peck J, Cadel E, Palepu V, Ferrell B, Warner C
J Biomech
. 2021 Jun;
125:110551.
PMID: 34182324
Thoracolumbosacral pedicle screw systems (TPSSs) are spinal implants commonly utilized to stabilize the spine as an adjunct to fusion for a variety of spinal pathologies. These systems consist of components...
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Palepu V, Peck J, Cadel E, Parikh A, Wagner S, Fredericks Jr D, et al.
J Biomech
. 2021 Apr;
121:110412.
PMID: 33873110
Intervertebral body fusion devices (IBFDs) are commonly used in the treatment of various spinal pathologies. Intra-operative fractures of polyether-ether-ketone (PEEK) implants have been reported in the literature and to the...
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Palepu V, Rayaprolu S, Nagaraja S
Int J Spine Surg
. 2019 Sep;
13(4):361-370.
PMID: 31531286
Background: The quality of the vertebral body structures such as endplate, cortex, and trabecular bone is important for understanding the performance of implants, particularly at the bone-implant interface. Although vertebral...
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Palepu V, Helgeson M, Molyneaux-Francis M, Nagaraja S
J Biomech Eng
. 2018 Dec;
141(3).
PMID: 30516247
Several approaches (anterior, posterior, lateral, and transforaminal) are used in lumbar fusion surgery. However, it is unclear whether one of these approaches has the greatest subsidence risk as published clinical...
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Palepu V, Helgeson M, Molyneaux-Francis M, Nagaraja S
Spine J
. 2017 Aug;
18(2):321-329.
PMID: 28823940
Background Context: Commercially available lumbar integrated fixation cages (IFCs) have variable designs. For example, screw-based designs have up to four screws inserted at different locations across the vertebral end plate...
9.
Nagaraja S, Palepu V
Int J Spine Surg
. 2017 Aug;
11:20.
PMID: 28765804
Background: Screw loosening is a well-known adverse event in traditional spinal fusion instrumentation. This phenomenon may hinder segmental stability of the spine leading to bony non-union. In recent years numerous...
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Briski D, Goel V, Waddell B, Serhan H, Kodigudla M, Palepu V, et al.
Spine (Phila Pa 1976)
. 2017 May;
42(20):E1158-E1164.
PMID: 28472018
Study Design: Randomized Biomechanical Cadaveric Study-Level II. Objective: We aimed to elucidate that placing lateral lumbar interbody cages that span the stronger ring apophysis will require increasing loads for failure,...