...Anisha Apte; Tobias Fauser; Quinlan Carson; Kenneth W. Liechty; Lauren N. Simpson; Anthony M. Avellino Introduction: Congenital dermal sinus (CDS) is an open neural tube defect (NTD) that occurs in 1 in 2,500 births a year and often goes undetected until patients present with complications like...

... Background: The fetoscopic approach to the prenatal closure of a neural tube defect (NTD) may offer similar advantages to the newborn compared to prenatal open closure of a NTD, with a reduction in maternal risks. Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) protocols have been applied to different surgical...

... the assessments. χ 2 tests or Fisher’s exact tests were also utilized to compare proportions of normally distributed data. A p value of 0.05 was deemed significant. Neural tube defect Myelomeningocele Fetal surgery Prognosis Neonatal outcome Myelomeningocele (MMC) is the most common type...

...) has become an accepted treatment option for prenatally diagnosed open neural tube defects. Historically, this option has been limited to women with BMI < 35 due to concern for increasing complications in patients with obesity. Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate maternal, obstetric...

... or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Myelomeningocele MOMS Plus Myeloschisis Neural tube defect Open...

... ]. Fetal surgery Maternal complications Neural tube defect Intrauterine surgery Myelomeningocele Clavien-Dindo classification Spina bifida aperta is one of the most severe congenital anomalies. A large prospective, randomized study, the Management of Myelomeningocele Study (MOMS trial), has...

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... labor, chorioamniotic separation, dehiscence of the hysterotomy and the need for maternal transfusion at delivery [ 1 ]. Classically, open surgery for fetal MMC is performed through a 6.0- to 8.0-cm hysterotomy to allow for the multilayer correction of the neural tube defect (NTD) as would...

...(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Fetal therapy Heart rate Intrauterine surgery Myelomeningocele Neural tube defect In fact, few studies have...

... to in the content or advertisements. Spina bifida Neural tube defect Prenatal diagnosis Spina bifida is a common malformation of the central nervous system, which results from failure of closure of the neural tube with consequent exposure of the neural canal content during the early period...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Fetal surgery Myelomeningocele Myeloschisis Neural tube defect Spina bifida Each year in the USA, approximately 1,500 babies are born with spina bifida [ 1 ]. Although 75% of the affected individuals survive to adulthood...

...Ashley S. Roman; Simi Gupta; Nathan S. Fox; Daniel Saltzman; Chad K. Klauser; Andrei Rebarber Introduction: To evaluate whether maternal serum α-fetoprotein (MSAFP) improves the detection rate for open neural tube defects (ONTDs) and ventral wall defects (VWD) in patients undergoing first-trimester...

...-amniotic injection in a syngeneic model of spina bifida. Methods: Fetal neural tube defects were induced on 20 pregnant Lewis dams by prenatal administration of retinoic acid. Ten dams served as amniotic fluid donors for epigenetic isolation of aNSCs, which were expanded and labeled with 5-bromo-2...

.... Cephalocele Fetal ultrasound Neural tube defect Scalp cyst Three-dimensional ultrasound Novel Insights from Clinical Practice Fetal Diagn Ther 2011;30:77 80 DOI: 10.1159/000322918 Received: August 18, 2010 Accepted after revision: November 18, 2010 Published online: January 6, 2011 Fetal Scalp Cyst...

...Mehmet Vural; Hakan Camuzcuoglu; Harun Toy; Nurten Aksoy Objective: To evaluate oxidative stress markers and prolidase activity in the amniotic fluid of fetuses with a neural tube defect (NTD) compared to the amniotic fluid of normal fetuses. Methods: Amniotic fluid samples from 36 pregnancies...

... or services advertised or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Urinary ascites Neural tube defect...

... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Anencephaly Neural tube defect Encephalocele Fetal Diagn Ther 1993;8:423-428 Nelson B. Isadaa Faisal Qureshi'0 Suzanne M. Jacquesb Wolfgang Holzgrevec Mary Jo Touta...

...Chris Grevengood; Lee P. Shulman; Jeffrey S. Dungan; Paula Martens; Owen P. Phillips; Donald S. Emerson; Richard E. Felker; Joe Leigh Simpson; Sherman Elias We examined parental decision concerning pregnancy management in women having fetuses with neural tube defects (NTDs) to determine whether...

... Neural tube defect Spinal dysraphisms Teratomas Kyphoscoliosis Prenatal diagnosis α-Fetoprotein levels Case Report Fetal Diagn Ther 2009;25:11 14 DOI: 10.1159/000185606 Received: October 24, 2007 Accepted after revision: February 4, 2008 Published online: December 18, 2008 Spinal Hamartoma...

... mutation Neural tube defect Fetal Diagn Ther 2007;22:155 158 DOI: 10.1159/000097117 Received: May 4, 2005 Accepted after revision: April 24, 2006 Published online: November 28, 2006 Prenatal Diagnosis and Genetic Counseling in a Case of Spina Bifida in a Family with Waardenburg Syndrome Type I Annegret...