Open spina bifida (OSB) is a serious neural tube defect ... Recent research has focused on refining ultrasound techniques and identifying specific markers that can aid in the early diagnosis ...

Lindsey was 18 weeks pregnant with her fifth child when she got a life-changing phone call. Her blood work was abnormal. She ...

She recalls the ultrasound tech looking at a specific ... "She kind of just said, 'Your baby has spina bifida,'" said ...

Spina bifida, also known as myelomeningocele ... It is often diagnosed through ultrasound. While surgery performed after birth can help reduce some of the effects, surgery before birth can ...

“Who better to teach a baby with spina bifida how to grow up to be independent and to manage their own care?” Hadley Peterson's doctor says Susan Young is a reporter for PEOPLE. She started ...

Abnormal levels indicate the possibility (not existence) of Down syndrome or a neural-tube defect such as spina bifida, which can then be confirmed by ultrasound or amniocentesis. When blood drawn ...

Presurgery motor level assessment for prediction of motor level at birth in fetuses undergoing prenatal repair of open spina bifida: time to abandon anatomical level in counseling. Ultrasound Obst ...

Back in those days, Turner said, spina bifida carried a death sentence. “Fifty-four years later, here we are,” said Turner, a Victor native now living in Rochester. “Doctors aren’t always ...

There was a multidisciplinary approach to describe how to perform a detailed evaluation of the spina bifida in utero using ultrasound and MRI. We also focused on the challenges of surgically managing ...

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