Hannah Blencowe, Simon Cousens, B. Modell, Joy E Lawn
BACKGROUND: Neural tube defects (NTDs) remain an important, preventable cause of mortality and morbidity. High-income countries have reported large reductions in NTDs associated with folic acid supplementation or fortification. The burden of NTDs in low-income countries and the effectiveness of foli...
Md Fazlul Hoque, Christoph Grangeon, Kylie Reed
Objectives Spinal Cord Lesions are a major public health problem in Bangladesh. This epidemiological study was undertaken in order to identify the causes of spinal cord lesions and thus to allow prevention and control programs to be developed. Materials and methods The records of 247 patients with s...
Noppachart Limpaphayom, David L. Skaggs, Gordon McComb, Mark D. Krieger et al.
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective review. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate complications of halo use in children. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Halos have been used in children for correction of spinal deformity and immobilization of the spine. Complications of halo use in children have been reported, including pin-s...
Brendan O’Daly, Seamus Morris, S. K. O’Rourke
STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective. OBJECTIVE: To assess long-term adverse functional outcome following pyogenic spinal infection using standardized outcome measures, Oswestry disability index (ODI), and medical outcomes study short form-36 (SF-36). SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: There is minimal published da...
Helen Dolk, Philippe De Wals, Y. Gillerot, M. F. Lechat et al.
In the period 1980-1987, neural tube defects were two to three times more prevalent in populations covered by EUROCAT registries in the United Kingdom and Ireland (UKI) than in Continental Europe and Malta (CEM). 1864 NTD cases in a total population of 580,000 births in UKI and 455 cases in a popula...
Maitreyi Mazumdar, Md Omar Sharif Ibne Hasan, Rezina Hamid, Linda Valeri et al.
BACKGROUND: Arsenic induces neural tube defects in several animal models, but its potential to cause neural tube defects in humans is unknown. Our objective was to investigate the associations between maternal arsenic exposure, periconceptional folic acid supplementation, and risk of posterior neura...
Gwen Tindula, Sudipta Kumer Mukherjee, Sheikh Muhammad Ekramullah, DM Arman et al.
BACKGROUND: Neural tube defects are a pressing public health concern despite advances in prevention from folic acid-based strategies. Numerous chemicals, in particular arsenic, have been associated with neural tube defects in animal models and could influence risk in humans. OBJECTIVES: We investiga...
Khandkar Ali Kawsar, Mohammod Raziul Haque, Forhad Hossain Chowdhury
OBJECT: Although endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) is a minimally invasive procedure, serious perioperative complications may occur due to the unique surgical maneuvers involved. In this paper the authors report the complications of elective and emergency ETV and their surgical management in 41...
Abdul Aziz, Ramanandan Prasad, Abdur Rashed Khan, Tahmina Banu
OBJECTIVE To reduce the morbidity and suffering of patients with rectovestibular fistula (RVF) and to lessen the cost of the staged management protocol. METHODS A prospective study was carried out in the Department of Paediatric Surgery of Dhaka Shishu (Children) Hospital, Bangladesh, from January 2...
Vijaya Kancherla, Md Omar Sharif Ibne Hasan, Rezina Hamid, Ligi Paul et al.
Neural tube defects contribute to severe morbidity and mortality in children and adults; however, they are largely preventable through maternal intake of folic acid before and during early pregnancy. We examined the association between maternal prenatal folic acid supplement intake and risk of myelo...
Md. Shofiqul Islam, M A Hafez, Mst Julia Akter
Study design This study was designed as a cross-sectional study. Objectives The objective of this study was to find out the clinical types and sociodemographic characteristics of patients with spinal cord lesion (SCL). Setting Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP). Methods Data were c...
Lola Madrid, Kartavya J. Vyas, Vijaya Kancherla, Haleluya Leulseged et al.
BACKGROUND: Neural tube defects are common birth defects resulting in severe morbidity and mortality; they can largely be prevented with periconceptional maternal intake of folic acid. Understanding the occurrence of neural tube defects and their contribution to mortality in settings where their bur...
Haradhan Deb Nath, Ashoka Mahapatra, SachinA Borkar
In giant encephalocele, head size is smaller than the encelphalocele. Occipital encephalocele is the commonest of all encephalocele. In our case, there was rare association with giant encephalocele with old hemorrhage in the sac. This was a unique presentation. In world literature, there was rare as...
Naofumi Ito, M. Asrafuzzaman Riyadh, Shah Adil Ishtiyaq Ahmad, Satoko Hattori et al.
The lateral ventricle (LV) is flanked by the subventricular zone (SVZ), a neural stem cell (NSC) niche rich in extrinsic growth factors regulating NSC maintenance, proliferation, and neuronal differentiation. Dysregulation of the SVZ niche causes LV expansion, a condition known as hydrocephalus; how...
M. J. Barakat, D. J. Carson, A. M. Hetherton, P. P. A. Smyth et al.
Four infants with spina bifida, who had not undergone surgical closure of a lumbar myelomeningocele, were assessed and investigated for hypothyroidism. From birth, all were treated once daily with an iodine-containing ointment (Betadine) as a local antiseptic applied to the spina defect. All infants...