MD Slobodan Ćulafić

MD Slobodan Ćulafić

Neuroradiologist

Specific professional orientation:

Embolization of aneurysms, tumors, AV malformations, endovascular treatments for acute stroke, carotid arteries, and spinal biopsies.

CT diagnostic: head, neck, spine, bone and joint system

Education:

2012-Faculty of Medicine. PhD : “Effectiveness of transsacral steroid injection in the treatment of lumbar disc herniation”

2006- Military Medical Academy, Master: “The importance of fluoroscopically guided epidural procaine-corticosteroid injection in the control of degenerative lumbosacral pain”

1997–2000 Military Medica Academy, specialization in radiology

1988- Faculty of Medicine, Belgrade

1981- High school of natural sciences and mathematics, Berane

 

Advanced training:

2007 Paris – Education in interventional neuroradiology at Hospital Lariboisere (Department of Neuroradiology).

2006 Poznan (Poland) -Education in the field of neuroradiological intervention procedures

October 2004 – January 2005 Rush Clinique Chicago (Department of Neuroradiology)- CT and MRI diagnostic procedures of the head, neck, interventional neuroradiological procedures

Job:

2021- Neuroradiologist at the Pulse Cardiology Center

2012- Head of the Department of Interventional Radiology at the Saint Sava Hospital

2008-2011 Head of the Institute of Radiology of the Military Medical Academy

2005–2008 Head of the Department of Neuroradiology of the Institute of Radiology of the Military Medical Academy

2000- Radiologist of the Department of Neuroradiology of the Institute of Radiology of the Military Medical Academy

 

Field of work:

Diagnostic methods: 64 slice CT and MRI examinations of the head, neck, spine, bone and joint system

Interventional neuroradiological procedures:

  1. Embolization of spiral aneurysms with or without stenting
  2. Embolization of balloon and stent aneurysms (double technique)
  3. Embolization of AV malformations
  4. Embolization of carotid cavernous fistula
  5. Embolization of tumors of the neck, nasal cavities and endocranium
  6. Endovascular treatment in acute cerebral infarction (stenting, angioplasty) and stenosis of intracranial blood vessels
  7. Endovascular treatment in carotid artery stenosis and a.subclavia stenosis
  8. Epidural steroid injection in the treatment of lumbosacral pain
  9. Neurolytic blockade of the obturator nerve in neuralgia
  10. Spinal biopsy

 

Memberships and achievements:  

Dr. Ćulafić performs 600 endovascular procedures annually, and since 2003 he has treated more than 7,000 patients. Dr. Ćulafić is currently engaged in the Puls cardiology center, he is a consultant for endovascular interventions in KBC Niš, KBC Kragujevac, KBC Novi Sad, University Center Tuzla and KBC Skopje in Macedonia.

He is a member of SLD, the European Society of Radiologists, the European Association of Interventional Neuroradiologists, the North American Association of Interventional Neuroradiologists