The Congress of Neurological Surgeons (CNS) has developed an evidence-based guideline for the treatment of patients with myelomeningocele. Executive summaries of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons ...

February 9, 2011 — Repairing a myelomeningocele in utero, rather than after birth, reduces the risk for fetal or neonatal death and the need for shunting by age 1 and substantially improves neurologic ...

We report a case of myelomeningocele in an infant whose mother was exposed to efavirenz during the first 16 weeks of pregnancy. Although the true risk for myelomeningocele with the use of efavirenz ...

Myelomeningocele is compatible with prolonged life. Surgical correction is possible. Neurological damage may however be irreversible. Problems with the spinal cord may also arise during the growth ...

Q: Which specialist should be consulted for this condition? A: It is best to consult a Neurologist or paediatrician. A combined effort of specialists from several disciplines like neurosurgery, ...

On November 14, doctors from Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital and the Hospital for Sick Children confirmed via a news conference that they had successfully performed an in-utero surgery to correct ...

To the Editor: In the report on the results of the Management of Myelomeningocele Study (MOMS) (March 17 issue), 1 a randomized trial comparing the efficacy of prenatal repair of myelomeningocele with ...

Medscape: For our readers who aren't familiar with this, could you summarize the work you have done to develop techniques of fetal surgery, and in particular fetal myelomeningocele repair? The concept ...

The Philippine Children’s Medical Center (PCMC) has announced that the country's first fetal surgery for myelomeningocele was a success. In a Facebook post, the PCMC reported that the surgery ...