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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.
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Publications
Selected publications
Chen S, Smielewski P, Czosnyka M, Papadopoulos MC, Saadoun S. Continuous Monitoring and Visualization of Optimum Spinal Cord Perfusion Pressure in Patients with Acute Cord Injury. J Neurotrauma. 2017;34:2941-2949.
Saadoun S, Chen S, Papadopoulos MC. Intraspinal pressure and spinal cord perfusion pressure predict neurological outcome after traumatic spinal cord
injury. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2017;88:452-453.
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