Professor in Residence UC San Francisco
Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr. Sigurd H. Berven, MD
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Sigurd Berven works in the field of Orthopaedic Surgery. She attended Harvard Medical School. Harvard Medical School is a one of the best medicals schools. Harvard Medical School is ranked 1/12 in Research/PrimaryCare. She received 2 awards: "Regional Top Doctor" and "CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification". Sigurd Berven has written publications. She has 101 publications published with PubMed. The lastest publication is: 'Variation in Costs of Spinal Implants in United States Academic Medical Centers.' She accepts all Medicare patients.
Publications
- Adjacent Segment Degeneration Versus Disease After Lumbar Spine Fusion for Degenerative Pathology: A Systematic Review With Meta-Analysis of the Literature.
- Neurologic Outcomes of Complex Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: Results of the Prospective, Multicenter Scoli-RISK-1 Study.
- The Economic Impact of Revision Surgery for Proximal Junctional Failure after Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery: A Cost Analysis of 57 Operations in A 10-Year Experience ...
- The Minimum Clinically Important Difference in SRS-22R Total Score, Appearance, Activity and Pain Domains After Surgical Treatment of Adult Spinal Deformity.
- Health Economic Studies: An Introduction to Cost-benefit, Cost-effectiveness, and Cost-utility Analyses.
- Hospital Readmission Rates After Surgical Treatment of Primary and Metastatic Tumors of the Spine.
- Optimal surgical care for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: an international consensus.
- Long fusion from sacrum to thoracic spine for adult spinal deformity with sagittal imbalance: upper versus lower thoracic spine as site of upper instrumented vertebra.
- Intervertebral discs from spinal nondeformity and deformity patients have different mechanical and matrix properties.
- A novel scientific model for rare and often neglected neoplastic conditions.
- Predictive Factors for Proximal Junctional Kyphosis in Long Fusions to the Sacrum in Adult Spinal Deformity.
- The use of cell based therapies as compared to autologous bone grafts for spinal arthrodesis. A systematic review.
- Surgical Site Infections in Spine Surgery: Identification of Microbiologic and Surgical Characteristics in 239 Cases.
- Revision surgery for lumbar pseudarthrosis.
- Hospital Readmission After Spine Fusion for Adult Spinal Deformity.
- Readmission rates after decompression surgery in patients with lumbar spinal stenosis among medicare beneficiaries.
- New Treatments and Imaging Strategies in Degenerative Disease of the Intervertebral Disks.
- The Discriminative Properties of the SF-6D Compared to the SF-36 and ODI.
- Surgical Site Infection (SSI) in Spinal Surgery: Description of Surgical and Patient-Based Risk Factors for Postoperative Infection Using Administrative Claims Data.
- Value-based Care in the Management of Spinal Disorders: A Systematic Review of Cost-utility Analysis.
- Spinal instability neoplastic score: an analysis of reliability and validity from the spine oncology study group.
- In-vivo Intervertebral Disc Characterization using Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and T1? Imaging: Association with Discography and Oswestry Disability Index and SF-36.
- Short-term Morbidity and Mortality Associated With Correction of Thoracolumbar Fixed Sagittal Plane Deformity: A Report from the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity a...
- Lumbar scoliosis in postmenopausal women: prevalence and relationship with bone density, age, and body mass index.
- Scoliosis research society morbidity and mortality of adult scoliosis surgery.
- Does BMP increase the incidence of perioperative complications in spinal fusion? A comparison of 55,862 cases of spinal fusion with and without BMP.
- Morbidity and mortality in the surgical treatment of six hundred five pediatric patients with isthmic or dysplastic spondylolisthesis.
- Incidence of unintended durotomy in spine surgery based on 108,478 cases.
- Complication rates of three common spine procedures and rates of thromboembolism following spine surgery based on 108,419 procedures: a report from the Scoliosis Resea...
- Morbidity and mortality in the surgical treatment of 10,242 adults with spondylolisthesis.
- A novel classification system for spinal instability in neoplastic disease: an evidence-based approach and expert consensus from the Spine Oncology Study Group.
- Introduction of new devices and technologies into a spine surgery practice: a review of processes and regulations.
- Morbidity and mortality in the surgical treatment of 10,329 adults with degenerative lumbar stenosis.
- The costs and benefits of nonoperative management for adult scoliosis.
- Reoperation after primary fusion for adult spinal deformity: rate, reason, and timing.
- The factors that play a role in the decision-making process of adult deformity patients.
- Clinical outcome of deep wound infection after instrumented posterior spinal fusion: a matched cohort analysis.
- Patient preferences and expectations for care: determinants in patients with lumbar intervertebral disc herniation.
- Defining substantial clinical benefit following lumbar spine arthrodesis.
- Extravasation of rhBMP-2 with use of postoperative drains after posterolateral spinal fusion.
- The efficacy of motor evoked potentials in fixed sagittal imbalance deformity correction surgery.
- Anterior arthrodesis with instrumentation for thoracolumbar scoliosis: comparison of efficacy in adults and adolescents.
- Comparison of observer variation in conventional and three digital radiographic methods used in the evaluation of patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
- Use of C-reactive protein after spinal surgery: comparison with erythrocyte sedimentation rate as predictor of early postoperative infectious complications.
- The selection of L5 versus S1 in long fusions for adult idiopathic scoliosis.
- Operative management of degenerative scoliosis: an evidence-based approach to surgical strategies based on clinical and radiographic outcomes.
- The Scoliosis Research Society classification for adult spinal deformity.
- Lumbar pedicle subtraction osteotomy.
- Preparing the adult deformity patient for spinal surgery.
- The SRS classification for adult spinal deformity: building on the King/Moe and Lenke classification systems.
- Serum levels of nickel and chromium after instrumented posterior spinal arthrodesis.
- Management of fixed sagittal plane deformity: outcome of combined anterior and posterior surgery.
- Lumbar end plate osteotomy in adult patients with scoliosis.
- Contemporary management of metastatic bone disease: tips and tools of the trade for general practitioners.
- The development of a model for translation of the Neck Disability Index to utility scores for cost-utility analysis in cervical disorders.
- Complications in the surgical treatment of 19,360 cases of pediatric scoliosis: a review of the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality database.
- Sacroiliac joint pain: burden of disease.
- Morphology of the human vertebral endplate.
- Does bone morphogenetic protein increase the incidence of perioperative complications in spinal fusion? A comparison of 55,862 cases of spinal fusion with and without ...
- Morbidity and mortality associated with spinal surgery in children: a review of the Scoliosis Research Society morbidity and mortality database.
- Rates of new neurological deficit associated with spine surgery based on 108,419 procedures: a report of the scoliosis research society morbidity and mortality committee.
- Correlation of higher preoperative American Society of Anesthesiology grade and increased morbidity and mortality rates in patients undergoing spine surgery.
- Rates of infection after spine surgery based on 108,419 procedures: a report from the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality Committee.
- Changes in radiographic and clinical outcomes with primary treatment adult spinal deformity surgeries from two years to three- to five-years follow-up.
- Risk-benefit assessment of surgery for adult scoliosis: an analysis based on patient age.
- Surgical versus nonoperative treatment for lumbar spinal stenosis four-year results of the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial.
- Introducing a new health-related quality of life outcome tool for metastatic disease of the spine: content validation using the International Classification of Functio...
- Regeneration of a spinal ligament after total lumbar disk arthroplasty in primates.
- Assessment of spine surgery outcomes: inconsistency of change amongst outcome measurements.
- Spondylolisthesis following a pedicle subtraction osteotomy. Case report.
- Dynamic constructs for spinal fusion: an evidence-based review.
- The cost effectiveness of surgical versus nonoperative treatment for lumbar disc herniation over two years: evidence from the Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SP...
- Pedicle subtraction osteotomy.
- Improvement of back pain with operative and nonoperative treatment in adults with scoliosis.
- Predicting SF-6D utility scores from the Oswestry disability index and numeric rating scales for back and leg pain.
- Operative versus nonoperative treatment of leg pain in adults with scoliosis: a retrospective review of a prospective multicenter database with two-year follow-up.
- Health related quality of life assessment in metastatic disease of the spine: a systematic review.
- Defining value in spine care.
- Complications of spinal fusion for scheuermann kyphosis: a report of the scoliosis research society morbidity and mortality committee.
- Surgical versus nonsurgical therapy for lumbar spinal stenosis.
- The problems and limitations of applying evidence-based medicine to primary surgical treatment of adult spinal deformity.
- Is the SRS-22 instrument responsive to change in adult scoliosis patients having primary spinal deformity surgery?
- Aneurysmal bone cysts of the spine.
- Minimum clinically important difference in lumbar spine surgery patients: a choice of methods using the Oswestry Disability Index, Medical Outcomes Study questionnaire...
- Pay-for-performance: considerations in application to the management of spinal disorders.
- The selection of operative versus nonoperative treatment in patients with adult scoliosis.
- Constructs incorporating intralaminar C2 screws provide rigid stability for atlantoaxial fixation.
- The impact of positive sagittal balance in adult spinal deformity.
- Complications in spinal fusion for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis in the new millennium. A report of the Scoliosis Research Society Morbidity and Mortality Committee.
- Nonsurgical resource utilization in adult spinal deformity.
- A clinical impact classification of scoliosis in the adult.
- Studies in the modified Scoliosis Research Society Outcomes Instrument in adults: validation, reliability, and discriminatory capacity.
- Intervertebral disc cell therapy for regeneration: mesenchymal stem cell implantation in rat intervertebral discs.
- The effect on anterior column loading due to different vertebral augmentation techniques.
- The validity of the SRS-22 instrument in an adult spinal deformity population compared with the Oswestry and SF-12: a study of response distribution, concurrent validi...
- Correlation of radiographic parameters and clinical symptoms in adult scoliosis.
- Clinical outcome in chordoma: utility of flow cytometry in DNA determination.
- Does instrumented anterior scoliosis surgery lead to kyphosis, pseudarthrosis, or inadequate correction in adults?
- Outcome and complications of long fusions to the sacrum in adult spine deformity: luque-galveston, combined iliac and sacral screws, and sacral fixation.
- Variation in Costs of Spinal Implants in United States Academic Medical Centers.
Doctors Specialties
- Orthopaedic Surgery
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Regional Top Doctor
- CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Harvard Medical School
Hospital
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San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center -
Sutter Santa Rosa Regional Hospital -
Saint Francis Memorial Hospital -
UCSF Medical Center
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1336193812 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | BERVEN | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | SIGURD | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 941432202 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CA | |
| Specialty Description | Orthopedic Surgery | |
| Total Claim Count | 70.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 0.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 0.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 0.0 |
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1336193812 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BERVEN |
| First Name Of The Provider | SIGURD |
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