Luis Aranguren, MD

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Luis Aranguren, MD

Luis Aranguren, MD

INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT

Seeing patients at:

Manhattan

Luis Aranguren, MD is a fellowship-trained specialist in Interventional Pain Management with a focus on autoimmune-related pain, hypermobility and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), and complex chronic pain. He also evaluates and treats spine-related pain, neuropathic pain, joint pain, and post-surgical pain, prioritizing restored function and day-to-day confidence.

He is drawn to complex, multisystem pain presentations, including hypermobility and EDS-related pain, lumbar and cervical radiculopathy (sciatica and neck-arm pain), facet-mediated back and neck pain, sacroiliac joint dysfunction, peripheral nerve pain, myofascial pain, and painful osteoarthritis and tendinopathies.

Treatment plans may include image-guided injections, radiofrequency ablation, targeted medications, and movement-based rehabilitation, alongside practical lifestyle and nutrition guidance. Dr. Aranguren coordinates care with physical therapists and referring clinicians to deliver clear plans, measurable relief, and durable self-management.

Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dr. Aranguren earned his medical degree at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, completed anesthesiology residency training at HCA/USF near Tampa, Florida, and an Interventional Pain Management fellowship at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in Chicago. He is bilingual in English and Spanish and a member of the American Medical Association.

Memberships

American Medical Association (AMA)
Future Health Professionals Association (FPS)

Research Projects

2013-2016 Department of Ophthalmology, UPR SOM
Clinical Research in Ophthalmology
Dr. Natalio Izquierdo, M.D.
2009-2010 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, UPR SOM
Literature search and clinical investigation in Candida antigen and HPV
Dr. Josefina Romaguera, M.D.

Publications/Presentations

2016

  1. VM Villegas, LA Aranguren, JL Kovach, SG Schwartz, HW Flynn. Current advances in the treatment of neovascular age-related macular degeneration. Expert Opin Drug Deliv. 2016;:1-10.
  2. JC Mwanza, G Triolo, P Monsalve, WJ Feuer, D Reyes-Capo, S Swaminathan, S Burke, V Paranjpe, LA Aranguren, RK Parrish, S Gedde, DL Budenz. Arcade retinal nerve fiber layer thinning predominates peripapillary structural changes in glaucoma. (AJO, submitted)

2015

  1. LE Vazquez, JC Mwanza, G Triolo, P Monsalve, WJ Feuer, S Burke, LA Aranguren, RK Parrish, S Gedde, DL Budenz. Volume analysis of the superior and inferior retinal nerve fiber bundles in normal and glaucomatous eyes. (AJO, submitted)
  2. LE Vazquez, JC Mwanza, G Triolo, P Monsalve, WJ Feuer, LA Aranguren, L Forbes, RK Parrish, S Gedde, DL Budenz. Retinal nerve fiber bundle analysis improves the diagnostic accuracy to detect glaucoma with OCT imaging. (in preparation for AJO)

2014

  1. Aranguren, L., Izquierdo, N., & Oliver, A. Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis/ Wegener’s Granulomatosis, A case Report. Boletín de la Asociación Médica de PR. Volume 106 No 04, 2014

Poster Presentation

  1. B Fortes, M Tapia, L Aranguren, I Agosto, G Smith, LE Vazquez Biochemical characterization of the post-synaptic density isolated from whole mouse retina
(ARVO 2016)
  2. LA Aranguren,WJ Feuer, G Triolo, P Monsalve, S Gedde, JC Mwanza, D Budenz, and LE Vazquez. Reproducibility of the retinal nerve fiber bundle vs. retinal nerve fiber layer analyses in SD-OCT images from glaucomatous eyes. AGS 2016 Annual Meeting
  3. Davila, P., Aranguren, LA. Ulloa, J., Izquierdo, N. Neurodegenerative Disorders in Patients with Glaucoma. Presented at Panamerican Association of Ophthalmology Congress in Bogota, Colombia 2015

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