Clinical trialNCT07280351Enrolling, by, invitationInterventional

Duraplasty for Acute Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

SponsorUniversity of California, San FranciscoEnrollment66Spinal Cord Injury (SCI), Initial EncounterSpinal Cord Injury CervicalSpinal Cord Injury, Acute

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Summary

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The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a procedure called "expansile duraplasty" can improve recovery in adults who have experienced an acute traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI). The main questions it aims to answer are: * Does expansile duraplasty work to improve recovery in people with acute traumatic SCI? * How safe is the use of expansile duraplasty in people with acute traumatic SCI? Researchers will compare the strength, movement, and overall recovery of participants who receive expansile duraplasty to that of participants who do not receive expansile duraplasty to see if the use of expansile duraplasty leads to better recovery for people with acute traumatic SCI. Participants will be randomly placed in one of two groups: an Experimental group and a Control group. Participants in the Experimental group will receive expansile duraplasty during their standard SCI surgery. Participants in the Control group will not receive expansile duraplasty during their standard SCI surgery. All participants will: * Provide samples of blood and cerebrospinal fluid * Undergo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans * Undergo an assessment of the ability to move arms/legs and feel touch or pin prick * Answer questionnaires about medical history, pain, health, and independence with activities of daily living

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Investigators

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Rajiv Saigal, MD, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, California, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study — it may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 4 May 2026
Primary completion: 30 Jun 2029
Completion: 30 Jun 2029
Last update posted: 21 Jul 2026
Registered enrollment: 66
Registry id: NCT07280351

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.