Spina bifida is a congenital malformation resulting from defects in neural tube closure. The data collection was carried out from january to may, 2006, by applying a form. The objective is clinical and epidemiological profile of children and adolescents who live with spina bifida. Spina bifida programs services how to help events media. Luna ceballos e, dominguez perez me, alvarez nunez r. Spina bifida is a birth defect in which the vertebral column is open, often with spinal cord involvement. Neural tube defects are the most common congenital conditions of the nervous system particularly in the african countries like. The results reveal that 32 78% children and adolescents had myelomeningocele, 22 54% were males. Spina bifida occulta associated with environmental arsenic exposure in a prehispanic. Spina bifida occulta associated with environmental arsenic exposure in a prehispanic sample from northern chile. Infants with this condition require surgery in the first days of their life and show varying degrees of sequelae. Spina bifida is a closure defect of the neural tube of multifactorial etiology.
The most clinically significant subtype is myelomeningocele open spina bifida, which is. Retrospective study that included children followed in spina bifida clinic. To measure healthrelated quality of the life of children, adolescents and care givers. To correlate quality of life with some studied variables. Spina bifida 1 darrag salim, abubakr, awad elzain, in. Office of communications and public liaison national institute of neurological disorders and stroke. Classification, causes and clinical implications of sacral. The care of children with spina bifida in the family home esc anna nery rev enferm 2009 outdez. Spina bifida 1 in sudan 1 national center of neurological sciences, khartoum, sudan. Precise and systematic knowledge of normal and classified variant anatomy of sacral spina bifida occulta is clinically important for anesthetists in locating sacral hiatus for nerve blocking, neurologists for bladder and bowl disorders, radiologists for correct interpretation of images, orthopedic surgeons for surgical procedures and academically to anatomists for correlating classes, their. It is a descriptive study, crosssectional, formed by 41 children and adolescents between zero and twenty years of age. Veronica silvapinto 1a, bernardo arriaza 2,3,4b, vivien standen 1c. Recent evidence from birth order data suggest that maternal factors can differently influence anencephaly and spina bifida.