ArticleAJNR. American journal of neuroradiology2023
Long-Term Imaging Follow-up from the Management of Myelomeningocele Study.
Article in AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Outcomes in prenatal vs. postnatal surgery for myelomeningocele: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025Pooled it
- Open Spinal Dysraphism Without Hindbrain Herniation-Natural History and Postnatal Outcome.Prenatal diagnosis · 2025Article
- Differences in brain development and need for CSF diversion based on MMC level: Comparison between prenatal and postnatal repair.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2025Article
- Comprehensive assessment of supratentorial and infratentorial volumes in infants with myelomeningocele with and without Chiari malformation type II.Neuroradiology · 2025Article
- Time to Death and Predictors Among Neonates with Neural Tube Defects in Two Public Hospitals, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Retrospective Follow-Up Study.Pediatric health, medicine and therapeutics · 2025Article
- Regression of Chiari malformation type 2 following early postnatal meningomyelocele repair-a retrospective observation from an institutional series of patients.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2024Article
- Intracranial volumetric evaluation in postnatally repaired myelomeningocele infants.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2024Article
- A qualitative analysis of patient and caregiver experiences with myelomeningocele through online discussion boards.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2024Article
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8 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
background and purposeShort-term results demonstrate that prenatal repair of a myelomeningocele is associated with a reduction in hydrocephalus and an increased likelihood of the reversal of Chiari II malformations compared with postnatal repair. The purpose of this study was to identify the long-term imaging findings at school age among subjects who underwent pre- versus postnatal repair of a myelomeningocele. MATERIALS AND
methodsA subset of subjects enrolled in the Management of Myelomeningocele Study who underwent either prenatal (
resultsPrenatal repair of a myelomeningocele was associated with higher rates of normal location of fourth ventricle and lower rates of hindbrain herniation, cerebellar herniation, tectal beaking, brainstem distortion, and kinking at school age compared with postnatal repair (all
conclusionsPrenatal repair of a myelomeningocele is associated with persistent improvement in posterior fossa imaging findings of Chiari II malformation at school age compared with postnatal repair.
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