The Next Generation of Biomarker Research in Spinal Cord Injury Universiteit Hasselt
In traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) patients, the assessment of the exact degree of lesion severity and neurological prognosis has proven to be extremely challenging. The current tools for predicting functional outcome in SCI patients such as clinical examination and magnetic resonance imaging are often inaccessible to unstable or polytraumatized patients, lack sensitivity and are unreliable in the acute phase of the injury. Multiple candidate ...