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The school inclusion and use of assistive technology with myelomeningocele sequelae students: a view of the teachers

Revista Educação Especial, 2011
Myelomeningocele is a congenital malformation that affects the fetus during pregnancy. It can causes numerous consequences for the development of the child and consequently in their schooling process.
Caroline Penteado Assis, Cláudia Maria Simões Martinez   +1 more
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Associations between post translational histone modifications, myelomeningocele risk, environmental arsenic exposure, and folate deficiency among participants in a case control study in Bangladesh

Epigenetics, 2017
Arsenic exposure may contribute to disease risk in humans through alterations in the epigenome. Previous studies reported that arsenic exposure is associated with changes in plasma histone concentrations. Posttranslational histone modifications have been
Jannah Tauheed, Marco Sanchez-Guerra, Jane J. Lee, Ligi Paul, Md Omar Sharif Ibne Hasan, Quazi Quamruzzaman, Jacob Selhub, Robert O. Wright, David C. Christiani, Brent A. Coull, Andrea A. Baccarelli, Maitreyi Mazumdar   +11 more
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Spina bifida-predisposing heterozygous mutations in Planar Cell Polarity genes and Zic2 reduce bone mass in young mice [PDF]

, 2018
Fractures are a common comorbidity in children with the neural tube defect (NTD) spina bifida. Mutations in the Wnt/planar cell polarity (PCP) pathway contribute to NTDs in humans and mice, but whether this pathway independently determines bone mass is ...
A Kamalakar, A Trinh, AJ Copp, AJ Copp, AS Findlay, B Wang, BA Alman, C Cooper, C Hartmann, CF Davey, CH Chen, D Karasik, D Szklarczyk, DG Winkler, DJ Epstein, DM Juriloff, E Canalis, E Nikolopoulou, EM Curtis, GH Li, GL Galea, GL Galea, GL Galea, GL Galea, H Marreiros, H Yin, HF Zheng, IR Orriss, IR Orriss, JK Morris, JN Murdoch, K Estrada, KC Keller, KS Joeng, L D’Andrea, LJ Martin, LL Yates, LL Yates, M Akbar, M Kalogeropoulos, ME Ross, MJ Anderson, MJ Harris, MJ Harris, MR Dohn, NC Nowlan, P Andre, P Elms, P Ybot-Gonzalez, P Ybot-Gonzalez, R Klootwijk, R Xu, S Babayeva, S Li, S Maere, SA Brown, SE Taylor, SJ Conway, T Dodge, T Yang, UM Ayturk, V Martinelli, W Yang, Y Erdem, Y Koyabu, Y Lei, Z Kibar   +66 more
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Scope of care in the first four years of life for individuals born with myelomeningocele: A single institution experience

Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, 2021
PURPOSE: Children with myelomeningocele are known to be consumers of substantial healthcare resources, with many early hospital encounters.
Betsy Hopson, Isaac Shamblin, Kathrin Zimmerman, Brandon Rocque, Arsalaan Salehani, Jeffrey P. Blount   +5 more
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Delayed Repair of Myelomeningoceles [PDF]

, 2014
Objective: Myelomeningocele is a defect that is typically surgically repaired within the first few days of life in developed countries to minimize the risk of meningitis.
Tye, Gary, Ward, John D., Watson, Joseph C.   +2 more
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To Study the Effect of Reconstructive Surgery of Myelomeningocele on the Prognosis of Patients [PDF]

Majallah-i dānishgāh-i ̒ulūm-i pizishkī-i Arāk, 2016
Background: Myelomeningocele is one of the common congenital malformation in childhood that has association with many disorders. in addition to routine management of associated disorders surgical repair of myelomeningocele has been considered in many ...
Ali Nazemi, Mahdieh Sadat Ghafari, Mohsen Dalvandi   +2 more
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Closure of Myelomeningocele Defects Using a Limberg Flap or Direct Repair

Archives of Plastic Surgery, 2016
Background The global prevalence of myelomeningocele has been reported to be 0.8–1 per 1,000 live births. Early closure of the defect is considered to be the standard of care.
Jung-Hwan Shim, Na-Hyun Hwang, Eul-Sik Yoon, Eun-Sang Dhong, Deok-Woo Kim, Sang-Dae Kim   +5 more
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Osteoporosis in Paediatric Patients with Spina Bifida [PDF]

, 2012
The prevalence andmorbidity associated with osteoporosis and fractures in patients with spina bifida (SB) highlight the importance of osteoporosis prevention and treatment in early childhood; however, the issue has received little attention.
Calado, E, Loff, C, Marreiros, H
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Repair of myelomeningocele using autologous amnion graft and local flaps. A report of two cases

JPRAS Open, 2018
Summary: We describe two cases where autologous amnion grafts were used to cover the neurosurgical repair of myelomeningocele (MMC) and the reconstructive flaps used for the skin defects.MMC is a severe fetal defect that evolves during embryonic ...
Liv Schoellhammer, Gudrun Gudmundsdottir, Mikkel M. Rasmussen, Puk Sandager, Martin Heje, Tine Engberg Damsgaard   +5 more
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Fractures in myelomeningocele [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: In patients with myelomeningocele (MMC), a high number of fractures occur in the paralyzed extremities, affecting mobility and independence.
Bjoern Bresch, Carl Hans Fürstenberg, Claus Carstens, Michael Akbar, Patric Raiss, Rainer Abel, Thomas Bruckner, Thorsten Seyler   +7 more
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