Non-traumatic Myelopathies

Diagnosis and treatment of non-traumatic myelopathies

Projects:

• Non-traumatic myelopathies at the neurological intensive care unit
• Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders
• Autoimmune myelitis
• Spinal cord infarction

 

Recent Publications:

• Pikija S, Mutzenbach JS, Kunz AB, Nardone R, Leis S, Deak I, McCoy MR, Trinka E, Sellner J. Delayed Hospital Presentation and Neuroimaging in Non-surgical Spinal Cord Infarction. Front Neurol. 2017 Apr 12;8:143.
• Nardone R, Pikija S, Mutzenbach JS, Seidl M, Leis S, Trinka E, Sellner J. Current and emerging treatment options for spinal cord ischemia. Drug Discov Today. 2016 Oct;21(10):1632-1641.
• Grassner L, Marschallinger J, Dünser MW, Novak HF, Zerbs A, Aigner L, Trinka E, Sellner J. Nontraumatic spinal cord injury at the neurological intensive care unit: spectrum, causes of admission and predictors of mortality. Ther Adv Neurol Disord. 2016 Mar;9(2):85-94.
• Sellner J, Boggild M, Clanet M, Hintzen RQ, Illes Z, Montalban X, Du Pasquier RA, Polman CH, Sorensen PS, Hemmer B. EFNS guidelines on diagnosis and anagement of neuromyelitis optica. Eur J Neurol. 2010 Aug;17(8):1019-32.
• Sellner J, Hemmer B, Mühlau M. The clinical spectrum and immunobiology of parainfectious neuromyelitis optica (Devic) syndromes. J Autoimmun. 2010 Jun;34(4):371-9.

 

Previous Funding: Spinal cord injury and tissue regeneration center (SCI-TReCS)

Current Funding: pending

 

Collaboration: Medical University of Graz, Franz Tappeiner Hospital Merano