Anthony Marmarou Ph.D.

Vice-Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery & Director of Research


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Education & 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
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    Publications (Selected from more than 200 papers, books and book chapters):

    1. 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.

    2. Yamamoto T, Marmarou A,: Normal pressure hydrocephalus: prediction and correlation between clinical examination and postshunt outcome. Crit Rev Neurosurg 5: 199-206, 1995.

    3. Shapiro K, Fried A, Marmarou A: Biomechanical and hydrodynamic characterisation of the hydrocephalic infant. J neurosurg 63: 69-75, 1985.

    4. Marmarou A, Nakamura T, Tanaka K: The kinetics of fluid movement through brain tissue. Seminars in Neurology. vol. 4, no. 4, 439-444.

    5. Shapiro K, Marmarou A, Portnoy H (eds.). Hydrocephalus, Raven Press, New York, 1984.

    6. 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.

    7. Shapiro K, Marmarou A, Conway E: Comparison of bolus and constant infusion technique for determining the resistance of the absoprtion of CSF. In: Intracranial Pressure V. S Ishii, H Nagai, and M Brock (eds). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 413-418, 1983.

    8. 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.

    9. Marmarou A, Shulman K, Rosende R: A nonlinear analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid system and intracranial pressure dynamics. J Neurosurg 48: 530-537, 1978.

    10. Marmarou A, Shulman K, LaMorgese J: A compartmental analysis of compliance and outflow resistance of the CSF system. J Neurosurg 43: 523-534, 1975.

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