Sentences with phrase «bifida surgery»
The Tethered Spinal Cord and Spina Bifida Surgery Program at Floating Hospital for Children offers surgical options to treat these conditions in our downtown Boston pediatric hospital.
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They studied whether fetal surgery could reduce the neurologic effects of a severe form of spina bifida by protecting the spinal cord from amniotic fluid by sealing the opening before birth.
Still, because surgery for spina bifida is straightforward — sealing an opening in the spinal column, which fails to close around the spinal cord as it should — surgeons began offering it prenatally more than 10 years ago.
The controversy came to a head in March when the National Institutes of Health issued a notice of a competition soliciting participation in a large - scale clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of fetal surgery as a treatment for spina bifida.
Nonetheless, there is no clinical evidence that closing the spina bifida lesion before birth produces a better outcome than surgery performed in the first week after delivery.
Delicate surgery performed on a fetus months before birth can improve the health of children born with spina bifida, a devastating neural tube defect caused by an opening in the spine, a new study shows.
Our neurosurgeons were the first in Michigan to offer fetal surgery for unborn infants with spina bifida, as part of the renowned U-M Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Center.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) made history in 1997 when two surgeons pioneered fetal surgery to treat spina bifida, or myelomeningocele, the most common birth defect in the central nervous system.
Spina bifida, in humans, can be treated with a difficult surgery in utero.