Duraplasty for Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

About this trial

This trial is enrolling 66 participants with very acute spinal cord injury during their initial acute hospital stay after spinal cord injury to compare the effect of expansile duraplasty with standard surgery alone. Expansile duraplasty is a surgical procedure in which the dura, the outermost membrane protecting the spinal cord, is opened and expanded with a patch to create more space for injured spinal cord swelling. If included, participants will be randomly assigned to receive standard spinal cord surgery either with or without duraplasty. Final testing of neurological function will be performed after 6 months.