On Thursday 5 September at 15:00, Mathias Møller Thygesen defends his PhD dissertation entitled "Spinal perfusion pressure – a novel treatment target in traumatic spinal cord injury".

The ph.d-project investigated whether pressure increases within and round the spinal cord, following traumatic spinal cord injury. Contrary to already published litterature, the study did not spinal cord injury to cause pressure to increase. Traumatic spinal cord injury is typically caused by high-energy trauma inflicting damage to the spinal cord. During the last decade, multiple studies have shown that the spinal cord is damaged even further during the following hours and days. This has been suggested to be caused by an increase in the pressure within the spinal cord, reuding the blood flow. In this ph.d.-project it was invesigated whether this pressure increase was caused by the spinal cord injury. The study found that meanwhile pressure did increase, it did not increase more, than following conventional spinal surgery.

The summary is written by the PhD student. 

The defence is public and takes place in Auditorium J116-113, Aarhus University Hospital. Please see the press release for more information. 

Contact

PhD student Mathias Møller Thygesen

Mail: matthy@clin.au.dk

Phone: (+45) 31135236

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