Professor, Neurosurgery, University of Utah School of Medicine
Neurosurgery
Dr. John R. Kestle, MD
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John Kestle works in the field of Neurosurgery. He received 2 awards: "Fellow (FACS)" and "Fellow (FAANS)". Doctor John R. Kestle, MD is a published doctor. He has 101 papers published. The most current publication "Randomized trial of cerebrospinal fluid shunt valve design in pediatric hydrocephalus."
Publications
- The Need for Cost-Effective Neurosurgical Innovation-A Global Surgery Initiative.
- The assessment of bulging fontanel and splitting of sutures in premature infants: an interrater reliability study by the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network.
- Editorial: Abdominal binders.
- Symptomatic Retethering of the Spinal Cord Following Section of a Tight Filum Terminale.
- Extended intraCranial applications for ethylene vinyl alcohol copolymer (Onyx): mycotic and dissecting aneurysms. Technical note.
- Treatment of metastatic Spinal epidural disease: a review of the literature.
- Pediatric Hydrocephalus: current management.
- Endoscopic third ventriculostomy versus ventriculoperitoneal shunt in pediatric patients: a decision analysis.
- Treatment practices for Chiari malformation type I with syringomyelia: results of a survey of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons.
- Late rapid deterioration after endoscopic third ventriculostomy: additional cases and review of the literature.
- Lack of efficacy of antibiotic-impregnated shunt Systems in preventing shunt infections in children.
- Surgical treatment of spasticity in children: comparison of selective dorsal rhizotomy and intrathecal baclofen pump implantation.
- Juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma of the Brainstem in children.
- Reduction of transfusion rates in the surgical correction of sagittal synostosis.
- Death after late failure of third ventriculostomy in children. Report of three cases.
- Effect of macular edema on surgical visual outcome in eyes with idiopathic epiretinal membrane.
- Propionibacterium encephalitis.
- Surgical technique for the management of constrictive epicarditis complicating constrictive pericarditis (the waffle procedure).
- Effect of hyperventilation on regional cerebral blood flow in head-injured children.
- A randomized clinical trial to compare selective posterior rhizotomy plus physiotherapy with physiotherapy alone in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy.
- Rationale and methodology of the multicenter pediatric cerebrospinal fluid shunt design trial. Pediatric Hydrocephalus Treatment Evaluation Group.
- A randomized trial to assess the efficacy of surgery in addition to radiotherapy in patients with a single cerebral metastasis.
- Determining the best cerebroSpinal fluid shunt valve design: the pediatric valve design trial.
- The shunt design trial: variation in surgical experience did not influence shunt survival.
- Efficacy and complications of morphine infusions in postoperative paediatric patients.
- An assessment of observer bias in the shunt design trial.
- Axillary nerve injuries in children.
- Pediatric peri-insular hemispherotomy.
- The initial treatment of Hydrocephalus: an assessment of surgeons'' preference between third ventriculostomy and shunt insertion.
- Change in ventricular size and effect of ventricular catheter placement in pediatric patients with shunted Hydrocephalus.
- Model for the cost analysis of shunted hydrocephalic children.
- Long-term follow-up data from the Shunt Design Trial.
- The patterns of late deterioration in patients with transitional lipomyelomeningocele.
- Ventricular shunting for Hydrocephalus in children: patients, procedures, surgeons and institutions in English Canada, 1989-2001.
- Predicting who will benefit from endoscopic third ventriculostomy compared with shunt insertion in childhood Hydrocephalus using the ETV Success Score.
- Reinfection following initial cerebroSpinal fluid shunt infection.
- Endoscopic third ventriculostomy vs cerebrospinal fluid shunt in the treatment of Hydrocephalus in children: a propensity score-adjusted analysis.
- Shunt malfunction.
- Antibiotic-impregnated external ventricular drains.
- Infection rates following initial cerebroSpinal fluid shunt placement across pediatric hospitals in the United States. Clinical article.
- A multicenter retrospective comparison of conversion from temporary to permanent cerebroSpinal fluid diversion in very low birth weight infants with posthemorrhagic hy...
- Clinical practice guidelines.
- Pooling data on antibiotic-impregnated shunts.
- Treatment and microbiology of repeated cerebroSpinal fluid shunt infections in children.
- The less you look, the less you find.
- A standardized protocol to reduce cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection: the Hydrocephalus Clinical Research Network Quality Improvement Initiative.
- Diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma-current status and future strategies.
- Shunt failure due to intraCranial migration of BioGlide ventricular catheters.
- It's randomized and double blinded... what more do we want?
- Priorities for Hydrocephalus research: report from a National Institutes of Health-sponsored workshop.
- Hospital care for children with Hydrocephalus in the United States: utilization, charges, comorbidities, and deaths.
- Outcomes after surgery for focal Epilepsy in children.
- Optic pathway Gliomas: a review.
- Association of intraventricular hemorrhage secondary to prematurity with cerebroSpinal fluid shunt surgery in the first year following initial shunt placement.
- Evaluation of the necessity of postoperative imaging after craniosynostosis surgery.
- Cellular phone use and Brain tumor: a meta-analysis.
- Predicting slitlike ventricles in children on the basis of baseline characteristics at the time of shunt insertion.
- Outcomes after decompressive craniectomy for severe traumatic Brain injury in children.
- Designing randomized clinical trials in pediatric neurosurgery.
- The role of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging in pediatric Brain tumors.
- Disseminated Medulloblastoma.
- Management of shunt infections: a multicenter pilot study.
- Shunt insertion in the summer: is it safe?
- Retained peritoneal shunt tubing causing hematuria. Case illustration.
- Sporadic osteochondroma of the cervical spine. Case illustration.
- Failure of cerebroSpinal fluid shunts: part II: overdrainage, loculation, and abdominal complications.
- Failure of cerebroSpinal fluid shunts: part I: Obstruction and mechanical failure.
- Noncommunicating Spinal extradural arachnoid cyst causing Spinal cord compression in a child.
- Potentially useful outcome measures for clinical research in pediatric neurosurgery.
- Complications of intraCranial pressure monitoring in children with head trauma.
- The high incidence of tumor dissemination in myxopapillary ependymoma in pediatric patients. Report of five cases and review of the literature.
- A multicenter prospective cohort study of the Strata valve for the management of Hydrocephalus in pediatric patients.
- Cranial base strategies for resection of craniopharyngioma in children.
- Adjustment and malfunction of a programmable valve after exposure to toy magnets. Case report.
- Assessing the validity of the endoscopic shunt insertion trial: did surgical experience affect the results?
- A meta-analysis of surgery versus conventional radiotherapy for the treatment of metastatic Spinal epidural disease.
- Clinical trials and evidence-based medicine for metastatic spine disease.
- Results of endoscopic septal fenestration in the treatment of isolated ventricular Hydrocephalus.
- Lack of benefit of endoscopic ventriculoperitoneal shunt insertion: a multicenter randomized trial.
- A cost-effectiveness analysis of endoscopic third ventriculostomy.
- ''Cortical thumb sign'' in X-linked Hydrocephalus.
- Marked reduction of cerebral vasospasm with lumbar drainage of cerebroSpinal fluid after subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Efficacy of multiple intraarterial papaverine infusions for improvement in cerebral circulation time in patients with recurrent cerebral vasospasm.
- Duration of antibiotic therapy for the treatment of shunt infection: a surgeon and patient survey.
- The treatment of cerebroSpinal fluid shunt infections. Results from a practice survey of the American Society of Pediatric Neurosurgeons.
- Predicting shunt failure on the basis of clinical symptoms and signs in children.
- CerebroSpinal fluid shunt technology.
- CSF shunts 50 years on--past, present and future.
- Reduction of hemorrhage risk after stereotactic radiosurgery for cavernous malformations.
- The natural history of cerebral cavernous malformations.
- Clinical trials.
- Randomized trial of cerebrospinal fluid shunt valve design in pediatric Hydrocephalus.
- Variation between centers in electrophysiologic techniques used in lumbosacral selective dorsal rhizotomy for spastic cerebral palsy.
- Therapeutic electrical stimulation following selective posterior rhizotomy in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy: a randomized clinical trial.
- Acute subdural hematoma associated with cerebral infarction in the full-term neonate.
- Intervertebral disc embolization resulting in Spinal cord infarction. Case report.
- A comparison between magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography for stereotactic coordinate determination.
- Value of postoperative surveillance imaging in the management of children with some common Brain tumors.
- Does thalamotomy alter the course of Parkinson's disease?
- The significance of bacteriologically positive ventriculoperitoneal shunt components in the absence of other signs of shunt infection.
Schools
McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences
Schulich School of Medicine And Dentistry
St Michaels Hospital
University Of Toronto
Hospital For Sick Chldn
Procedures Preformed
- CerebroSpinal Fluid (CSF) Shunt - Insertion, Repair or Removal
- Craniectomy, Craniotomy, Surgery of Skull Base, Neuroendoscopy
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Lamina Procedures (incl. Laminectomy, Laminoplasty, Laminotomy)
Conditions Treated
- Brain and Nervous System Cancer (incl. Gliomas, Astrocytoma, Schwannoma, Medulloblastoma, Chordoma)
- Brain Cancer
- Brain Injury
- Cranial Trauma
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Doctors Specialties
- Neurosurgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Fellow (FACS)
- Fellow (FAANS)
Education
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University of Western Ontario
Hospital
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University of Utah Health Care - Hospital and Clinics
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