Spinal Cord Injuries Clinical Trial
Official title:
Evaluation of the Safety, Feasibility, and Preliminary Efficacy of Dorsal Myelotomy and Expansive Duraplasty Performed Either Without or With Autologous Nerve Graft Implantation After Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury
This is a single-blinded (with outcome assessors blinded to treatment allocation), 12-month pilot study to evaluate of the safety, feasibility, and preliminary efficacy of dorsal myelotomy and expansive duraplasty performed either without or with autologous nerve graft implantation after acute traumatic spinal cord injury. Ten participants will be allocated to receive either DMED (n=5) or DMED + ANGI (n=5) based on a block design. Participants and assessors will be blinded to group allocation. Excess sural nerve samples will be collected for banking/analysis (may include proteomic, culturing, genomic, cellular analysis).
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is associated with devastating personal burdens including paralysis, sensory changes, autonomic dysfunction, and chronic debilitating pain. Few effective treatments have been developed with standard of care consisting of state-of-the-art neurocritical care, timely surgical decompression, and rehabilitation. While a variety of novel neuroprotective and neuroregenerative approaches have been posited, clinical trials to date have failed to demonstrate associated clinical benefits. Current therapies are primarily aimed at reducing secondary injury processes, which are related to inflammation and ischemia, that persist over days-to-weeks following the primary mechanical insult. Intraparenchymal progressive hemorrhagic necrosis and swelling within the restrictive physical barrier of the pial and dural layers leads to further compression and ischemia, propagating the secondary injury cascade. Early surgical bony decompression following SCI is thought to improve clinical outcomes, specifically after cervical-level injuries. While few developments have been made in actual surgical techniques beyond bony decompression, early reports suggest that reduction of intraspinal pressure (ISP) could reduce secondary injury. Long-recognized but not clinically employed techniques to reduce ISP involve fashioning a dorsal midline myelotomy to allow for intramedullary decompression of hematoma and necrotic tissue and expansion of the dural compartment by opening the dura and sewing in of an expansive patch. Corollary techniques have long been standard-of-care following cranial trauma: removal of the calvarial bone, evacuation of hematoma, expansive dural closure, and treatment of intra-cranial pressure have been proven effective in several randomized clinical trials. Each of these steps are also at times used in other domains of spinal surgery, specifically oncologic resections. Despite having been demonstrated as an option to manage spinal trauma by Allen over a century ago, these techniques have not been widely studied or applied in modern spinal surgery. The data obtained from this study will be used to inform and advance the practice of spinal cord decompression and cell-based therapies following acute SCI. Information on microsurgical technique adjustments, neurocritical nursing care standards, medical management, and ISP metrics may prove invaluable in advancing the feasible and safe aspects of these interventions. SCI is a severely disabling neurological condition leading to impaired mobility, pain, and autonomic dysfunction. As potentially neuroprotective strategies, dorsal myelotomy and expansive duraplasty (DMED) along with cell-based therapies (e.g., autologous nerve tissue graft implantation, ANGI) are recognized as promising candidates to promote functional recovery. However, no trials of these therapies in patients have yet provided reproducible evidence of clinical efficacy, challenged by small effect sizes, low immune suppression, and low sensitivity study designs. This pilot study design represents the first stage of a systematic evaluation of DMED +/- ANGI performed in the early/acute phase after SCI. Performance of DMED at early timepoints is expected to have the greatest impact on minimizing the deleterious effect of increased ISP and secondary injury due to PHN, which is known to be ongoing over the first hours and days after SCI. Assessment of the feasibility and safety of performing DMED +/- ANGI represent a critical first step prior to engaging in any larger-scale multicenter evaluations of efficacy. Future larger-scale phases of the study will focus on elucidating the efficacy of these interventions in protecting against secondary neuronal injury processes and in improving function after SCI. The pilot data generated from this study will prove crucial in seeking a larger award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other funding sources. While refinements and combined therapies may prove useful, widespread clinical translation of currently employed cell transplantation protocols will likely face critical logistic and safety-related obstacles, particularly in the most opportune acute phase after SCI. The need for cell culturing and concomitant immunosuppression are fraught with potential complications, especially considering the relative immune compromised state and elevated risk of infections in the acute phase after SCI that can independently negatively impact neurological outcomes. ;
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