Sergi Martinez-Ramirez, MD | Neurology

Board Certifications: Neurology
Special Interests: cerebral amyloid angiopathy, cerebrovascular diseases, neurosarcoidosis, neuroimmunology, advanced general neurology.

Selected publications:

Fotiadis P, Reijmer YD, Van Veluw SJ, Martinez-Ramirez S, Karahanoglu FI, Gokcal E, Schwab KM, Goldstein JN, Rosand J, Viswanathan A, Greenberg SM, Gurol ME. White matter atrophy in cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Neurology. 2020 08 04; 95(5):e554-e562. 

Martinez-Ramirez S, van Rooden S, Charidimou A, van Opstal AM, Wermer M, Gurol ME, Terwindt G, van der Grond J, Greenberg SM, van Buchem M, Viswanathan A. Perivascular Spaces Volume in Sporadic and Hereditary (Dutch-Type) Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy. Stroke. 2018 Aug;49(8):1913-1919. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.118.021137. 

Charidimou A, Boulouis G, Roongpiboonsopit D, Auriel E, Pasi M, Haley K, van Etten ES, Martinez-Ramirez S, Ayres A, Vashkevich A, Schwab KM, Goldstein JN, Rosand J, Viswanathan A, Greenberg SM, Gurol ME. Cortical superficial siderosis multifocality in cerebral amyloid angiopathy: A prospective study. Neurology. 2017 Nov 21;89(21):2128-2135. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000004665. Epub 2017 Oct 25. 

Charidimou A, Boulouis G, Pasi M, Auriel E, van Etten ES, Haley K, Ayres A, Schwab KM, Martinez-Ramirez S, Goldstein JN, Rosand J, Viswanathan A, Greenberg SM, Gurol ME. MRI-visible perivascular spaces in cerebral amyloid angiopathy and hypertensive arteriopathy. Neurology. 2017 Mar 21;88(12):1157-1164. doi: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000003746. Epub 2017 Feb 22. 

Romero JR, Preis SR, Beiser A, DeCarli C, Viswanathan A, Martinez-Ramirez S, Kase CS, Wolf PA, Seshadri S. Risk factors, stroke prevention treatments, and prevalence of cerebral microbleeds in the Framingham Heart Study. Stroke. 2014 May;45(5):1492-4. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.004130. Epub 2014 Apr 8. 

Marti-Fabregas J, Martinez-Ramirez S, Marti-Vilalta JL. Re: The Stroke Outcomes and Neuroimaging of Intracranial Atherosclerosis (SONIA) trial. Neurology. 2008 Apr 8;70(15):1296; author reply 1296-7

Marti-Fabregas J, Martinez-Ramirez S, Martinez-Corral M, Diaz-Manera J, Querol L, Suarez-Calvet M, de Juan M, Santaló M, Marin R, Marti-Vilalta J-L. Blood pressure is not associated with haematoma enlargement in acute intracerebral haemorrhage. Eur J Neurol 2008, 15: 1085-1090.

Martinez-Hernandez E, Martinez-Ramirez S, Delgado-Mederos R, Alcolea 0, Marquie M, Marin R, De Juan M, Marti-Vilalta JL, Marti-Fabregas J. Remote cerebral hematomas in patients treated with intravenous rt-PA. J Neurol 2010 Jul;257(7):1062-6.

Martinez-Ramirez S, Delgado-Mederos R, Marti-Vilalta JL, Marti-Fabregas J. Safety of tPA in stroke mimics and neuroimaging-negative cerebral ischemia: swift or sure? The acceptable rate of neurovascular mimics among IV tPA-treated patients. Neurology 2010 Nov 16;75(20):1853; author reply 1854.

Martinez-Ramirez S, Delgado-Mederos R, Marin R, Suarez-Calvet M, Sainz MP, Alejaldre A, Vidal A, Marti-Vilalta JU, Marti-Fabregas J. Statin pretreatment may increase the risk of symptomatic intracranial haemorrhage in thrombolysis for ischemic stroke. Results from a case-control study and a meta-analysis. J Neurol. 2012 Jan;259(1):111-8

Martinez-Ramirez S, Greenberg SM, Viswanathan A. Microbleeds do not affect rate of cognitive decline in Alzheimer disease. Neurology. 2013 Mar 26;80(13):1266.

Martinez-Ramirez S, Pontes-Neto OM, Dumas AP, Auriel E, Halpin A, Quimby M, Gurol ME, Greenberg SM, Viswanathan A. Topography of dilated perivascular spaces in subjects from a memory clinic cohort. Neurology. 2013 Apr 23;80(17):1551-6

Romero JR, Preis SR, Beiser A, Decarli C, Viswanathan A, Martinez-Ramirez S, Kase CS, Wolf PA, Seshadri S. Risk factors, stroke prevention treatments, and prevalence of cerebral microbleeds in the Framingham Heart Study. Stroke. 2014 May;45(5):1492-4.

Martinez-Ramirez S, Thanprasertsuk S, Marques Pontes-Neto O, Ni J, Ayres A, Reed A, Swords K, Gurol M.E., Greenberg S.M., Viswanathan. Posterior white matter disease distribution as a predictor of amyloid angiopathy. Neurology. 2014 Aug 26;83(9):794-800.

Shoamanesh A, Martinez-Ramirez S, Oliveira-Filho J, Reijmer YD, Falcone GJ, Ayres A, Schwab K, Goldstein JN, Rosand J, Gurol ME, Viswanathan A, Greenberg SM. Interrelationship of Superficial Siderosis and Microbleeds in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy. Neurology. 2014 Nov 11;83(20):1838-43.

Reijmer YD, Fotiadis P, Martinez-Ramirez S, Salat DH, Schultz A, Shoamanesh A, Ayres AM, Vashkevich A, Rosas D, Schwab K, Leemans A, Biessels GJ, Rosand J, Johnson KA, Viswanathan A, Gurol ME, Greenberg SM. Structural network alterations and neurological dysfunction in cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Brain. 2015 Jan;138(Pt 1):179-88.

Charidimou A, Martinez-Ramirez S, Shoamanesh A, Oliveira-Filho J, Frosch M, Vashkevich A, Ayres A, Rosand J, Gurol ME, Greenberg SM, Viswanathan A. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy with and without hemorrhage: Evidence for different disease phenotypes. Neurology. 2015 Mar 24;84(12):1206-12.

Martinez-Ramirez S, Romero JR, Shoamanesh A, McKee AC, Van-Etten E, Pontes-Neto O, Macklin EA, Ayres AM, Auriel E, Himali JJ, Beiser AS, DeCarli Ch, Stein TD, et al. Diagnostic value of lobar microbleeds in individuals without intracerebral hemorrhage. Alzheimers Dement. 2015 Dec;11(12):1480-8.

Auriel E, Charidimou A, Gurol ME, Ni J, Van Etten ES, Martinez-Ramirez S, Boulouis G, Piazza F, DiFrancesco JC, Frosch MP, Pontes-Neto OV, Shoamanesh A, Reijmer Y, Vashkevich A, Ayres AM, Schwab KM, Viswanathan A, Greenberg SM. Validation of Clinicoradiological Criteria for the Diagnosis of Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy-Related Inflammation.<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26720093> JAMA Neurol. 2016 Feb;73(2):197-202.

van Veluw S, Biessels GJ, Bouvy W, Spliet W, Zwanenburg J, Luijten PR, Macklin E, Rozemuller AJ, Gurol ME, Greenberg SM, Viswanathan A, Martinez-Ramirez S. Cerebral amyloid angiopathy severity is linked to dilation of juxtacortical perivascular spaces. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2016 Mar;36(3):576-80.

Charidimou A, Ni J, Martinez-Ramirez S, Vashkevich A, Ayres A, Rosand J, Gurol EM, Greenberg SM, Viswanathan A. Cortical Superficial Siderosis in Memory Clinic Patients: Further Evidence for Underlying Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy. Cerebrovasc Dis. 2016;41(3-4):156-62.

Fotiadis P, van Rooden S, van der Grond J, Schultz A, Martinez-Ramirez S, Auriel E, Reijmer Y, van Opstal AM, Ayres A, Schwab KM, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Adni, Hedden T, Rosand J, Viswanathan A, Wermer M, Terwindt GM, Sperling RA, Polimeni JR, Johnson KA, van Buchem MA, Greenberg SM, Gurol ME. Cortical atrophy in patients with cerebral amyloid angiopathy: a case-control study. Lancet Neurol. 2016 Jul;15(8):811-9.

Izzy S, Mazwi NL, Martinez S, Spencer CA, Klein JP, Parikh G, Glenn MB, Greenberg SM, Greer DM, Wu O, Edlow BL. Revisiting Grade 3 Diffuse Axonal Injury: Not All Brainstem Microbleeds are Prognostically Equal. Neurocrit Care. 2017 Oct;27(2):199-207

Charidimou A, Boulouis G, Roongpiboonsopit D, Auriel E, Pasi M, Haley K, van Etten ES, Martinez-Ramirez S, Ayres A, Vashkevich A, Schwab KM, Goldstein JN, Rosand J, Viswanathan A, Greenberg SM, Gurol ME. Cortical superficial siderosis multifocality in cerebral amyloid angiopathy: A prospective study. Neurology. 2017 Nov 21;89(21):2128-2135.

Martinez-Ramirez S, van Rooden S, Charidimou A, van Opstal AM, Wermer M, Gurol ME, Terwindt G, van der Grond J, Greenberg SM, van Buchem M, Viswanathan A. Perivascular Spaces Volume in Sporadic and Hereditary (Dutch-Type) Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy. Stroke. 2018 Aug;49(8):1913-1919.