Anthony Marmarou, PHD
Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery and Director of Research
Education and Training
- BSEE - Drexel University, Philadelphia
- MSEE - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- PhD - Temple University, Philadelphia
Professional Appointments
- Professor of Neurosurgery
- Professor of Physiology
- Professor of Radiology
- Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professional Interests
- Pathology and treatment of Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus
- CSF and ICP fluid dynamics
- Cerebral edema formation and resolution
- Pathophysiology of traumatic brain injury
- Pharmacological therapy of brain injury
Publications
Selected from more than 200 papers, books and book chapters
- Yamamoto T, Marmarou A, Dunbar J, Young H: The evaluation of the prognostic value of a 72 hours prolonged spinal drainage for normal pressure hydrocephalus. ICP X, A Marmarou, R Bullock et al (eds). Springer-Verlag, Wien/New York Acta Neurochir (Suppl) 71: 401, 1998.
- Yamamoto T, Marmarou A,: Normal pressure hydrocephalus: prediction and correlation between clinical examination and postshunt outcome. Crit Rev Neurosurg 5: 199-206, 1995.
- Shapiro K, Fried A, Marmarou A: Biomechanical and hydrodynamic characterisation of the hydrocephalic infant. J neurosurg 63: 69-75, 1985.
- Marmarou A, Nakamura T, Tanaka K: The kinetics of fluid movement through brain tissue. Seminars in Neurology. vol. 4, no. 4, 439-444.
- Shapiro K, Marmarou A, Portnoy H (eds.). Hydrocephalus, Raven Press, New York, 1984.
- Shapiro K and Marmarou A: Abnormal brain compliance as a cause of hydrocephalus in children. In: Intracranial Pressure V. S Ishii, H Nagai and M Brock (eds). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg pp. 622-627, 1983.
- Shapiro K, Marmarou A, Conway E: Comparison of bolus and constant infusion technique for determining the resistance of the absorption of CSF. In: ntracranial Pressure V. S Ishii, H Nagai, and M Brock (eds). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 413-418, 1983.
- Shapiro K, Marmarou A, Shulman K: Characterisation of clinical CSF dynamics and neural axis compliance using the pressure-volume index: 1. The normal pressure-volume index. Annals of Neurology 7 (6) 508-514, June 1980.
- Marmarou A, Shulman K, Rosende R: A nonlinear analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid system and intracranial pressure dynamics. J Neurosurg 48: 530-537, 1978.
- Marmarou A, Shulman K, LaMorgese J: A compartmental analysis of compliance and outflow resistance of the CSF system. J Neurosurg 43: 523-534, 1975.
- Marmarou A, Black P, Bergsneider M, Klinge P, Relkin N; International NPH Consultant Group: Guidelines for management of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus: progress to date. Acta Neurochir Suppl 95:237-40, 2005.