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 ...

Performing delicate surgery in the womb, months before birth, can substantially improve outcomes for children with a common, disabling birth defect of the spine. A new landmark study shows that fetal ...

Officials say in a historic first for Indiana, Riley Children’s Health has performed the state’s first successful fetal ...

Every day, about eight babies in the U.S. are born with spina bifida, a birth defect that literally means "split spine" or "cleft spine," and essentially means that the brain, spinal cord, the ...

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Theo Dawson was diagnosed with spina bifida after a 20-week ultrasound and received fetal surgery before he was born.

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 ...

Spina bifida is the most common permanently disabling birth defect in the United States today. It is a structural birth defect that is formed as a result of incomplete closure in the vertebra of the ...

Spina bifida, literally translated from Latin to “split spine” is a neural tube birth defect that is characterized by incomplete closure of the spinal cord. It can lead to symptoms such as loss of ...