Professor Marios Papadopoulos: Neurosurgery

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Specialises in

Spine

About me

Professor Marios Papadopoulos graduated with first class honours from Cambridge, and continuted his clinical medicine studies in Oxford. He obtained an MD in neuroscience from Cambridge. He completed his neurosurgery Specialist Registrar training at Atkinson Morley Hospital, Hurstwood Park Neurological Centre and the University of California at San Francisco. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Surgical Neurology.

Professor Papadopoulos has been a Consultant Neurosurgeon at St George’s Hospital in London since 2006 and has a large clinical practice.

Areas of interest

• Spinal neurosurgery • Carpal tunnel syndrome • Neurovascular intervention • Nerve compression • Peripheral nerve disorders • Brain tumours

Medical secretaries

Medical Secretary to Mr Marios Papadopoulos
07726 478137

About me

External resources

Current NHS consultant posts held

Professor of Neurosurgery, Atkinson Morley Wing, St George's Hospital

Research interests

Professor Papadopoulos heads a research laboratory at St. George’s, University of London. He published several research papers on aquaporin water channels and their roles in brain and spinal cord swelling. He also leads a clinical study (ISCoPE) aiming to devise novel surgical techniques to improve the outlook of patients with spinal cord injury.

Languages spoken

English, Greek

Publications

Selected publications

Saadoun S, Papadopoulos MC. Spinal cord injury: is monitoring from the injury site the future? Crit Care. 2016;20:308.

Greenway FE, Papadopoulos MC. Fusion surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis? J Spine Surg. 2016;2:154-7.

Phang I, Zoumprouli A, Saadoun S, Papadopoulos MC. Safety profile and probe placement accuracy of intraspinal pressure monitoring for traumatic spinal cord injury: Injured Spinal Cord Pressure Evaluation study. J Neurosurg Spine. 2016;25:398-405.

Phang I, Werndle MC, Saadoun S, Varsos G, Czosnyka M, Zoumprouli A, Papadopoulos MC. Expansion duroplasty improves intraspinal pressure, spinal cord perfusion pressure, and vascular pressure reactivity index in patients with traumatic spinal cord injury: injured spinal cord pressure evaluation study. J Neurotrauma. 2015;32:865-74.

Werndle MC, Saadoun S, Phang I, Czosnyka M, Varsos GV, Czosnyka ZH, Smielewski P, Jamous A, Bell BA, Zoumprouli A, Papadopoulos MC. Monitoring of spinal cord perfusion pressure in acute spinal cord injury: initial findings of the injured spinal cord pressure evaluation study. Crit Care Med. 2014;42:646-55.

Complete publication list

Medline entries: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=papadopoulos+mc

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My outcomes

My qualifications & training

My private practice

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Procedures completed

V2540
Posterior excision of disc prolapse (including microdiscectomy +/- decompression) - lumbar region (1 or 2 levels) - (5-50)
V2200
Posterior decompression +/- foraminotomy - cervical region (1 or 2 levels) - (1-5)
V2542
Posterior excision of disc prolapse with undercutting facetectomy +/- decompression - lumbar region (1 or 2 levels) - (1-5)
V2562
Decompression for central spinal stenosis (3 or more levels) - (1-5)
V4740
Image guided percutaneous spinal biopsy - (1-5)
V3362
Primary posterior fusion with instrumentation +/- decompression +/- discectomy (including Graft stabilisation and all fusion approaches) (lumbar region) - (1-5)
A5211
Epidural injection (caudal) - (1-5)
X3510
IV sedation administered by operator - (1-5)
V2544
Revision of posterior excision of disc prolapse (lumbar region) - (1-5)
A3810
Excision of lesion of meninges of brain - (1-5)
V2400
Posterior decompression with fusion (thoracic region) - (1-5)
V2201
Posterior decompression +/- foraminotomy - cervical region (3 or more levels) - (1-5)
A6700
Release of entrapment of peripheral nerve - (1-5)
A6180
Excision of lesion of major nerve - (1-5)
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