Abstract
Materials and methods We reviewed data of all SB patients, aged 0-18, who have been followed in our SB Nucleus in the last two years. Once the eligible population of patients with SB had been assembled, chart reviews were conducted to abstract data from the health records. After that, each family was contacted, either directly or by telephone call. The parameters examined were: date of birth, sex, level of neurological lesion, type of ambulation, shunted hydrocephalus, shunt revision, syringomyelia, history of prolonged immobilization, the number of fractures and their location, age of occurrence of each fracture and the type of provoking stress. We used MATLAB software (Version 7.1) for all statistical analyses.
Highlights
Some decades ago, patients with myelomeningocele were damned to a short and distressing existence, but nowadays, with medical advances, their life has been prolonged
53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida Meeting abstracts - A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here.
We reviewed data of all Spina Bifida (SB) patients, aged 0-18, who have been followed in our SB Nucleus in the last two years
Summary
Address: 1Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Hospital Dona Estefânia, Lisboa, Portugal and 2Paediatric Neurology Department, Hospital Dona Estefânia, Lisboa, Portugal. 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida Meeting abstracts - A single PDF containing all abstracts in this Supplement is available here.
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