Richard L Rovit's research while affiliated with New York Medical College and other places

... The etiology of pituitary apoplexy due to pituitary adenoma is not fully understood. Various predisposing factors, such as anticoagulant use 5 , head trauma 6 , bromocriptine treatment 7 and endocrine stimulation tests 8 have been reported, and pregnancy itself has also been reported to be a predisposing factor 9 . It would appear that a poor blood supply to the tumor or fragile blood vessels within it lead to ischemia and hemorrhagic infarction or bleeding 10 . ...

... He stressed that, in general, surgeons have been reluctant to plan for retirement; and he cited Rovit's reasons that surgeons forestall consideration of retirement including fear of death, lack of self esteem and resistance to change. 30 Blasier also discussed that in the United States there is no federally mandated retirement age for surgeons. In the United Kingdom, surgeons in the public health service were mandated to stop performing surgery at age 65 and retire from practice at age 70, until 2011 when the United Kingdom phased out mandatory retirement at age 65 for all professions. ...

... The patient initially did well but eventually died after an intracranial procedure with carotid ligation under hypothermia. 10,11 ...

... However, there are contrary views as well, considering the wisdom of specialization. The opponents of specialization point to the fact that the current categorization of neurosurgical subspecialties represents an incongruent group of Bareas of interest^whose origins are historical in their development and whose boundaries are indistinct, artificial, and often fail to share a common theme [10]. ...

... In contrast, another study believed drug-induced toxicity caused by selective inhibition of DNA synthesis in erythroid precursors, most likely at the deoxyribose production phase, leads to aplastic anemia [27]. This is managed by using IV human recombinant granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor [28]. Also, drugs like phenytoin and carbamazepine should be avoided in patients with porphyria as they may lead to hemolysis. ...

... Peripheral neurectomy is the surgical destruction of the offending branch of the trigeminal nerve. 45,46 It is often reserved for cases whereby medical therapy is ineffective or contraindicated or for patients in whom gangliolysis and microvascular decompression surgery (MVD) are contraindicated due to medical comorbidities. The success rate of peripheral neurectomies is variable, and they are associated with an increased risk of developing painful posttraumatic trigeminal neuropathy (PPTTN). ...

... These anastomotic connections are not easily assessed and therefore their presence or ability to undertake supply of the AChoA territory, if this vessel is impaired, is difficult to judge. For these reasons the most feared consequence of treatment of aneurysms aris-ing from AChoA is infarction within the territory of this vessel that can but does not always, result in a devastating outcome for patients [24,25]. Friedman et al. [17] reported a case series of 51 AChoA aneurysms in 50 patients, 33 of whom presented with acute subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), 3 patients died, 2 from treatment-related complications and 8 patients (16%) demonstrated clinical and computed tomography (CT) evidence of infarction within the AChoA territory. ...

... He was an accomplished artist (Fig. 2), a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a physician-scientist, a soldier, and a teacher. 3,7,13,15,17,[19][20][21] The revered position of the brain surgeon in American culture is due, in large part, to the accomplishments of our iconic founder. 9 I maintain that the principles to which Cushing adhered are the founding principles of our specialty. ...

... Although scientific leadership still resided in central Europe [29], its surgeons recognized that some of their former students had been remarkably successful in the New World. In 1902, William W. Keen was accorded the rare distinction of honorary membership in the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie (DGCh) [30,31]. William S. Halsted, who had developed the Johns Hopkins surgical residency based on the German model, visited Europe often and was welcomed as a peer by Eiselsberg, Kocher, and others [18,32,33]. ...

... These factors contribute to a low standard of secondary and tertiary modern medicine, in which neurosurgery and pediatric neurosurgery have a very small place; (2) the budget for health is inferior to the resources for the ministries of defense and government-in charge of the police. A short-term or even midterm solution to this issue is complex considering the financial resources of the healthcare systems to implement more incomes to health and improve professionals' education [16,17]. ...