OBJECTIVE To study injury-related and individual factors as predictors of work participation in persons with traumatic and congenital spinal cord injury. DESIGN Cross-sectional questionnaire study. SUBJECTS One hundred and eighty-two persons with traumatic spinal cord injury treated in the Spinal Injuries Unit in Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden, and 48 persons with meningo...

Meningomyelocele is a congenital defect involving the central nervous system which is one of the most common among those compatible with life. Children affected by this condition present neurological, orthopedic, renal and urogenital complications, needing lifelong healthcare provisions. The aim of this study was to analyze the reality experienced by children and adolescents with meningomyeloce...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of surgery time on prognosis of newborns with meningomyelocele. METHODS The records of neonates with meningomyelocele were retrospectively analyzed. Demographic and clinical characteristics as well as information, timing of surgery, and durations of hospital stay and antibiotic therapy were recorded. RESULTS The records of 30 babies were included in the f...

IntroductIon: Failure of neural tube closure early in intrauterine development results in spectrum of abnormalities ranging from spinabifidaocculta, a relativelybenigncondition to meningomyeocele, an abnormality involving vertebral bodies, spinal cord and brainstem. These babies also have associated congenital anomaliese.g.intestinalmalrotation, renal anomalies, cardiac malformations and trache...

Anesthesia of a newborn poses different types of challenges to the anesthesiologist. Cervical meningomyelocele adds to the difficulty with positioning and airway problems. We report a case of successful management of such a case.

Meningomyelocele is a malformation with high prevalence, and one of its main comorbidities is Arnold-Chiari malformation type II. The intrauterine repair of this defect has been studied to reduce the progressive spinal cord damage during gestation. The purpose of the present review was to describe the evolution of fetal surgery for meningomyelocele repair. Searches on PubMed database were condu...

Split notochord syndrome with dorsal enteric fistula is an extremely rare congenital anomaly that may be associated with meningomyelocele or meningocele, and genitourinary anomalies. This case presented with an additional finding of bladder exstrophy, raising the possibility of a relationship between this syndrome and the OEIS complex.