The National Spina Bifida Program

The National Spina Bifida Program transition initiative: the people, the plan, and the process.

This article outlines and summarizes the rationale and the working process that was undertaken by the National Spina Bifida Program to address the issues of transitioning throughout the life course for persons growing up with spina bifida. Their challenges include achieving independent living, vocational independence, community mobility, and participation in social activities, and health manage...

Spina Bifida (Myelomeningocele)

The Treatment of Spina Bifida

are glad to have a full and authoritative account of it provided by the originator. The work is enriched by the addition of Professor Humphry's drawings, and by a special account of the pathology of spina bifida from the pen of Professor Cleland. The author modestly refers to the report of the Clinical Society on his mode of treatment with some gratitude, and at the same time with a certain amo...

Sirenomelia with spina bifida.

Sirenomelia is an exceptionally rare cogenital malformation characterized by a single fused lower limb. This deformity is variably known as symmelia, sympodia monopodia, sympus and due to its resemblance to the mermaid of Greek and Roman mythology popularly also known as mermaid baby. Sirenomelia has prevalence of 1.5 4.2 cases per 100,000 births(l). About 300 cases of this lethal anomaly have ...

Tumour Simulating Spina Bifida

The patient enjoyed excellent health from his childhood up to the age of 21, when he felt a peculiar sensation of heat and burning over his waist. On rubbing his finger over the part, he felt the skin a little raised. The pain and the swelling lasted for a fortnight or so when it was cured by a hakim of his place. Three months after the alleged cure, he noticed a fluctuating tumour about the si...