Dr. Sunil Malagi Specialist in Neuro Surgery

Introduction

Dr Sunil Malagi is a highly qualified and experienced neurosurgeon trained at elite institutes of India working in Hubballi-Dharwad for the past 6 years. He has performed innumerable surgeries including multiple high-end and complex procedures and has rich experience and specialises in both brain and spine surgeries with excellent outcomes.

Area of Expertise

Vascular surgeries (aneurysm, AVM, Stroke),
Brain and Spinal tumours
Awake Craniotomies
Trauma surgeries (Brain and Spine)
Skull base surgeries
Paediatric Neurosurgery
Spinal Surgery (Degenerative, Infective)
Endoscopic resection of pituitary tumours
Stereotactic surgery

Research & Publications

Thesis (M.Ch. Neurosurgery): Role of Decompressive Laminectomy in the Management of poor grade cervical compressive myelopathy.
Thesis (M.S. General Surgery): Comparison between Apache-II Scoring, CRP, IL-6 Estimation and Contrast Enhanced Computed Tomography findings for The Early Predictin of Severity and Morbidity in Acute Pancreatitis.
Primary mesenteric liposarcoma: An unusual presentation of a rare condition. Sudhir Kumar Jain, Aparajita Mitra, Ram Chandra Murthy Kaza, Sunil Malagi. J Gastrointest Oncol. 2012 Jun; 3(2): 147–150.
Nontraumatic Atlanto-occipital Dislocation: Rare Experience of Two Cases. Alok M Uppar, Nupur Pruthi, Sunil Malagi, Sandeep Kandregula, Mustafa I Ahmed. Journal of Spine Surgery for April-June 2018.
Role of Decompressive Laminectomy without instrumentation in the management of Nurick grade 4 and 5 cervical compressive myelopathy. Sunil Malagi eat al. J Neurosci Rural Practice. Jan-Mar 2019
Spinal Extradural Arachnoid Cyst: Rare cases from Indian Institutes. Jitendra Chaturvedi, P Singh, S Malagi. Surg Neurol Int. 2020 Sept 25; 11:306.
Anterior Cervical Microdiscectomy and Fusion using Stand-Alone Polyetheretherketone Cage: A Retrospective Study. Pradeep Kumar Jain, Sunil Malagi, Anoop Shastry, Pranoy Hegde, Deepankar Ramesh Devamane. Journal of Clinical & Diagnostic Research . Sep2021, Vol. 15 Issue 9, p23-25. 3p

Medical Breakthrough

First to start CV junction fixation for Atlanto-axial dislocation at SDM. Several cases done with good outcome.
Performed 2 awake craniotomies to date for motor cortex gliomas with excellent outcome with no neurological deficit.

Awards & Accolades

Presented a paper at NSICON 2017, Nagpur. Title – “Decompressive laminectomy in the management of poor grade cervical compressive myelopathy.”
Attended WFNS radiosurgery committee course at Chandigarh, Sep 14, 2017
Attended 15 day hands on course at AIIMS, New Delhi in March 2017. NETS course – training on microvascular anastomosis, skull base drilling, endoscopy and sciatic nerve end to end anastomosis in live rat.
Attended a basic microvascular anastomosis workshop in NIMHANS on live rats and a session on brain dissection in February 2018.
Attended an advanced micro vascular anastomosis workshop in NIMHANS on live rats and a session on brain dissection in September 2019.
Attended a workshop on Minimally Invasive Spine surgery in Bengaluru in April 2019.
Attended NSICON 2019 conference in Mumbai as a delegate for a paper presentation.

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