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Spina bifida [PDF]

Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2015
Spina bifida is a birth defect in which the vertebral column is open, often with spinal cord involvement. The most clinically significant subtype is myelomeningocele (open spina bifida), which is a condition characterized by failure of the lumbosacral spinal neural tube to close during embryonic development.
Copp, AJ, Adzick, NS, Chitty, LS, Fletcher, JM, Holmbeck, GN, Shaw, GM   +5 more
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Pelvic organ prolapse is highly prevalent in women with spina bifida [PDF]

BJUI Compass
Introduction Women with spina bifida often experience neurological impairments leading to pelvic organ dysfunction, including difficulties with bladder and bowel emptying that necessitate frequent Valsalva manoeuvres.
Alexandre Dubois, Briac Malandain, Juliette Hascoet, Camille Haudebert, Charlène Brochard, Claire Richard, Caroline Voiry, Krystel Nyangoh Timoh, Andrea Manunta, Emmanuelle Samson, Benoit Peyronnet   +10 more
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Associations of arsenic exposure and folate in maternal leukocyte DNA methylation: a case-control study of mothers with spina-bifida affected children [PDF]

Environmental Health
Background In Bangladesh, more than a quarter of drinking water tubewells are contaminated with arsenic above the national standard (50 µg/l), while nearly half exceed the World Health Organization guideline (10 µg/l).
Amy M. Inkster, Anne K. Bozack, Bernardo Lemos, Tabitha Lumour-Mensah, Sudipta Kumar Mukherjee, Shekh Muhammad Ekramullah, DM Arman, Joynul Islam, Xingyan Wang, Liming Liang, Richard H. Finnell, Maitreyi Mazumdar, Andres Cardenas   +12 more
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Spina bifida

Canadian Urological Association Journal, 2018
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Alvaro A, Saavedra, Dawn, Maclellan, Gary J, Gray   +2 more
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Neonatal and infant mortality associated with spina bifida: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

PLoS ONE, 2021
ObjectivesA systematic review was conducted in high-income country settings to analyse: (i) spina bifida neonatal and IMRs over time, and (ii) clinical and socio-demographic factors associated with mortality in the first year after birth in infants ...
Peter Ho, Maria A Quigley, Dharamveer Tatwavedi, Carl Britto, Jennifer J Kurinczuk   +4 more
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Changes in Autonomic Nervous System Activity in Children With Spina Bifida: A Case-Control Study [PDF]

International Neurourology Journal, 2023
Purpose We compared heart rate variability parameters between patients with spina bifida and a control group during urodynamic studies, with the goal of evaluating the autonomic nervous system dysfunction present in spina bifida. Methods Continuous heart
Byeong Seon Kim, Israel Franco, Yong Seung Lee, Sang Won Han, Sang Woon Kim   +4 more
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Mobility guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida

Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, 2020
The Spina Bifida Association (SBA) is the organization that represents the needs of the population with spina bifida (SB). They are tasked with advocacy, education, optimizing care, and providing a social voice for those with spina bifida. In response to
Pamela E. Wilson, Shubhra Mukherjee
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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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Family functioning guidelines for the care of people with spina bifida

Journal of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, 2020
Research supports a resilience-disruption model of family functioning in families with a child with spina bifida. Guidelines are warranted to both minimize disruption to the family system and maximize family resilience and adaptation to multiple spina ...
Tessa K. Kritikos, Grayson N. Holmbeck
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Transition into adult healthcare services in Scotland –findings from a study concerning service users at the Scottish Spina Bifida Association [PDF]

, 2014
Background and Aims: Literature on interventions that enable young people with spina bifida and/or hydrocephalus to have smooth transition, into adult healthcare services, stress the need for the process to start early and to include all family members ...
Carachi, Robert, Levy, Sharon, Wynd , Andrew H D   +2 more
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