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Dr. Kamran Parsa

Neurosurgery
Encino, CA
15 years experience male

Locations

NeuroSpine Institute

Encino, CA

Address

16661 Ventura Blvd, Suite 707, Encino, CA, United States
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My office hours

Friday: 8:00am - 5:00pm
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Practice website

Fax

6614802378

NeuroSpine Institute

Palmdale

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Specialties
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Neurosurgery

Licenses

United States: California

Languages spoken

English

Doctor Q&A

16 Answers
12 Agrees
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A 41-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
Explanation: You have a herniated disc in your neck. My concern from this report is how much neuroforaminal stenosis there is at c6/7. As mentioned prior. I can be... Read More
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A 25-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
Muscle spasms : See your pcp. It sounds like a muscle spasm/strain.
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A 32-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
Possibly: I wouldn't worry about MRI findings at this point if your back pain has resolved and if you don't have any pain/numbness/tingling radiating into your ... Read More
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A 18-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
Need ENT: You will need a CT of your sinuses and see the ENT surgeon ASAP. There are multiple sinuses. The Sphenoid sinus is a dangerous one to have infected an... Read More
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A 30-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
Explanation : You must a thumbed/eroded cribiform plate from some sort of prior insult... e.g.: infection, trauma etc. if it has healed and does not recur, then it ... Read More
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A 33-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
May be. : If you are worried about an aneurysm. CT angiogram would be a good study to diagnose the condition better
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A 20-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
Need evaluation: You'll need a full evaluation by a scoliosis spine surgeon and a chiropractor with scoliosis experience. As a scoliosis trained spine surgeon, I am al... Read More
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A 41-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
No: The symptoms you are describing do not correlate with Intracranial hypertension.
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A 25-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
Yes: Yes, call immediately or go to ED. Try to lay flat as much as possible.
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A 47-year-old male asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
See your pcp: You may have nerve root impingement. Ask to obtain an MRI cervical non-contrast.
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A 23-year-old male asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
Not related: An AVM does not predispose you to cancer by itself. It does however increase your chances of having a stroke.
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A 19-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
Possible lumbar disc: There can be multiple causes. Most common is a mildly herniated disc in your lumbar spine that becomes symptomatic in the position you mentioned.
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A 34-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
No: No. Always do confirm that the hospital frequently calibrates their CT machines to keep radiation doses within state/federal requirements.
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A 57-year-old male asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
More information: CSF among some other possible conditions may be the cause. I will need more information to answer this question properly.
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A 30-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
Depends. : If the leak is exposed to the outside environment or to cavities that have bacteria sitting there, then yes you are and will need the leak treated imm... Read More
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A 41-year-old female asked:
Dr. Kamran Parsa
Neurosurgery 15 years experience
Meaning: It means that in the coronal plane (looking straight at your spine from the front- as opposed to saggital or from the side); you have a curve facing t... Read More
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Education & Training

Medical/Graduate school

Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, CA
Graduated 2008MD

Residency

ARROWHEAD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
Completed 2014

Awards

Top Neurosurgeon, First Place, California - Spring
2017

Affiliations

North American Spine Society (NASS)
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Member
AOA
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