Dr. Klinge an internationally renowned clinician working on the unifying concept of cognitive problems related pathology in Hydrocephalus of aging and the lifelong implications of cerebrospinal fluid disorders and cerebrospinal fluid biomarkers. In addition to complex adult and pediatric hydrocephalus,her practice also includes patients with associated developmental Cerebrospinal fluid disorders, diagnosed with Chiari malformation, syringomyelia and tethered cord, both adult and pediatric patients with a nationwide referral base including patients of all ages. Dr. Kinge has always associated clinical endeavors with research and focused on pioneering concepts of disease, such as the failure of “Myodural bridges” and defunct collagen that supports the aspects of CSF circulatory failure at the base of the skull in various conditions including Chiari associated with connective tissue disease. She works on the novel concept of a “Spinal cord motion disorder” that might explain, and support occult neurosurgical pathologies associated with impaired CSF regulation and the “occult” tethering of the spinal cord and brainstem. She has been appointed by the National Academy of Sciences and has served in 2022 in a committee to establish disability criteria for the neurological conditions in patients with Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrome and Marfan Syndrome as an nationally acknowledged expert for spinal cord disorders and tethered cord syndrome. Selected Heritable Disorders of Connective Tissue and Disability | National Academies
