Dr. Ali Al Balushi

Consultant, Vascular Neurologist & Neurointerventionalist

MD, American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (Neurology, Vascular Neurology), Neurointerventional Surgery Fellowship

Speciality : Neurology
Language : Arabic, English
Experience : 18 Years

Dr. Ali Al Balushi is a country-renowned vascular and interventional neurologist. He leads Oman Aster neurology and stroke services. He obtained his MD degree from Sultan Qaboos University and completed residency training in Neurology in the United States of America and obtained fellowship training in Stroke Neurology and another fellowship in Neurointerventional Surgery from New York. He is the first Omani doctor who is fellowship-trained and board-certified in stroke neurology.

His training background is unique as he is the only neurologist in Oman with clinical fellowship training in Neurointervention. He provides clinical services in emergency evaluation and treatment of acute stroke including IV thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy, services approved by the Ministry of Health, and currently offered in the private sector in Oman only at Aster Royal Hospital.

Dr. Al Balushi also provides clinical services for other neurologic emergencies like seizures, headaches, and central nervous system infections. He provides tele-stroke consultation and runs inpatient stroke services and outpatient general and stroke neurology services.

Dr. Al Balushi is a founding member of the Oman Neurology Society. He is a member of various professional societies like the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, Society of Vascular & Interventional Neurology, and Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery. He has published extensively in the field of Stroke Neurology and Neurointervention and is a reviewer for an elite group of journals in the field of Stroke and Neurointervention.

  • Neurology
  • Stroke Neurology
  • Neurointerventio

  • Dmytriw AA, Diestro JDB, Dibas M, Phan K, Sweid A, Cuellar-Saenz HH, Lay SV, Guenego A, Renieri L, Al Balushi A, Sundararajan SH, Carnevale J, Saliou G, Möhlenbruch M, Vranic JE, Rabinov JD, Lylyk I, Foreman PM, Vachhani JA, Župančić V, Hafeez MU, Rutledge C, Waqas M, Tutino VM, Abbas R, Inoue Y, Capirossi C, Ren Y, Schirmer CM, Piano M, Kühn AL, Michelozzi C, Elens S, Regenhardt RW, Ghozy S, Alotaibi NM, Tjoumakaris S, Starke RM, Lubicz B, Panni P, Puri AS, Pero G, Griessenauer CJ, Asadi H, Brooks M, Maingard J, Jhamb A, Siddiqui A, Ducruet AF, Albuquerque FC, Kan P, Kalousek V, Lylyk P, Savardekar A, Boddu S, Knopman J, Limbucci N, Chen KS, Aziz-Sultan MA, Stapleton CJ, Jabbour P, Cognard C, Patel AB, Adeeb N. International Study of Intracranial Aneurysm Treatment Using Woven EndoBridge: Results of the WorldWideWEB Consortium. Stroke. 2021 Dec 17:STROKEAHA121037609. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.121.037609. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34915737.
  • Dmytriw AA, Dibas M, Ghozy S, Adeeb N, Diestro JDB, Phan K, Cuellar-Saenz HH, Sweid A, Lay SV, Guenego A, Renieri L, Al Balushi A, Saliou G, Möhlenbruch M, Regenhardt RW, Vranic JE, Lylyk I, Foreman PM, Vachhani JA, Župančić V, Hafeez MU, Rutledge C, Waqas M, Tutino VM, Rabinov JD, Ren Y, Schirmer CM, Piano M, Kühn AL, Michelozzi C, Elens S, Starke RM, Hassan A, Salehani A, Sporns P, Jones J, Psychogios M, Spears J, Lubicz B, Panni P, Puri AS, Pero G, Griessenauer CJ, Asadi H, Stapleton CJ, Siddiqui A, Ducruet AF, Albuquerque FC, Du R, Kan P, Kalousek V, Lylyk P, Boddu S, Tjoumakaris S, Knopman J, Aziz-Sultan MA, Limbucci N, Jabbour P, Cognard C, Patel AB. The Woven EndoBridge (WEB) Device for the Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms: Ten Years of Lessons Learned and Adjustments in Practice from the WorldWideWEB Consortium. Transl Stroke Res. 2022 Sep 6. doi: 10.1007/s12975-022-01072-x. Epub ahead of print. Erratum in: Transl Stroke Res. 2022 Sep 27;: PMID: 36066701.
  • Diestro JDB, Dibas M, Adeeb N, Regenhardt RW, Vranic JE, Guenego A, Lay SV, Renieri L, Al Balushi A, Shotar E, Premat K, El Naamani K, Saliou G, Möhlenbruch MA, Lylyk I, Foreman PM, Vachhani JA, Župančić V, Hafeez MU, Rutledge C, Rai H, Tutino VM, Mirshani S, Ghozy S, Harker P, Alotaibi NM, Rabinov JD, Ren Y, Schirmer CM, Goren O, Piano M, Kuhn AL, Michelozzi C, Elens S, Starke RM, Hassan A, Salehani A, Nguyen A, Jones J, Psychogios M, Spears J, Parra-Fariñas C, Bres Bullrich M, Mayich M, Salem MM, Burkhardt JK, Jankowitz BT, Domingo RA, Huynh T, Tawk R, Ulfert C, Lubicz B, Panni P, Puri AS, Pero G, Griessenauer CJ, Asadi H, Siddiqui A, Ducruet AF, Albuquerque FC, Du R, Kan P, Kalousek V, Lylyk P, Boddu SR, Stapleton CJ, Knopman J, Jabbour P, Tjoumakaris S, Clarençon F, Limbucci N, Aziz-Sultan MA, Cuellar-Saenz HH, Cognard C, Patel AB, Dmytriw AA. Intrasaccular flow disruption for ruptured aneurysms: an international multicenter study. J Neurointerv Surg. 2022 Jul 22:neurintsurg-2022-019153. doi: 10.1136/jnis-2022-019153. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35868856.
  • Elsayed S, Al Balushi A, Schupper A, Shoirah H. Artery of Percheron occlusion with first-pass recanalization of the first segment of a posterior cerebral artery. BMJ Case Rep. 2021 Apr 21;14(4):e237968. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2020-237968. PMID: 33883107; PMCID: PMC8061851.
  • Schwarz J, Al Balushi A, Sundararajan S, Dinkin M, Oliveira C, Greenfield JP, Patsalides A. Management of idiopathic intracranial hypertension in children utilizing venous sinus stenting. Interv Neuroradiol. 2020 Nov 25:1591019920976234. doi: 10.1177/1591019920976234. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33236688.
  • Al Balushi A, Oliveira C, Patsalides A. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension with stenosis of a solitary occipital venous sinus treated with stenting. Interv Neuroradiol. 2020 Oct;26(5):664-667. doi: 10.1177/1591019920949094. Epub 2020 Aug 5. PMID: 32757674; PMCID: PMC7645177.
  • Majidi S, Lee J, Al Balushi A, Fifi JT, Singh IP. Endovascular thrombectomy in octogenarians and nonagenarians with large vessel occlusion: Technical aspects and clinical outcome. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2020 Oct;29(10):105120. doi: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2020.105120. Epub 2020 Jul 14. PMID: 32912528.
  • Yeboah K, Bodhit A, Al Balushi A, Krause E, Kumar A. Acute ischemic stroke in a trauma cohort: Incidence and diagnostic challenges.Am J Emerg Med. 2019 Feb;37(2):308-311.
  • Al Balushi A, Kitchener J, and Edgell R. Bilateral Ophthalmic Artery Dissecting Aneurysms Presenting with Recurrent Epistaxis. Vasc Interv Neurol. 2017 Jan; 9(3): 14–16. Al Balushi A and Lee F. 70-Year Old Woman with Impaired Consciousness. Oman Med J. 2017 Jul;32(4):352-353.
  • Kafaie J, Al Balushi A, Kim M and Alan Pestronk. Clinical and Laboratory Profiles of Idiopathic Small Fiber Neuropathy In Children: Case Series. J Clin Neuromuscul Dis. 2017 Sep;19(1):31-37.
  • Al Balushi A, Lee F. 70-Year-Old Woman with Impaired Consciousness. Oman Med J. 2017 Jul;32(4):352-353. doi: 10.5001/omj.2017.67. PMID: 28804591; PMCID: PMC5534227.
  • Al Balushi A, Meeks M W, Hayat G and Kafaie J. (2016).Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease: Analysis of Four Cases. Front. Neurol. 7: 138. doi: 10.3389/fneur. 2016. 00138.

Book Chapters

  • Al Balushi A., Knopman J. (2022) Balloon Test Occlusion, Wada Test and Inferior Petrosal Sinus Sampling. In: Mascitelli J.R., Binning M.J. (eds) Introduction to Vascular Neurosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88196-2_28.
  • Authored 5 chapters in the 6th edition of the “Little Black Book of Neurology” by Zaidat and Lerner.

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