ALLMedicine™ Encephalocele Center

Jan 27th, 2023 - Encephaloceles are neural tube defects characterized by herniation of meninges, neural tissue and cerebrospinal fluid, while atretic cephaloceles denote a rudimentary connection to the intracranial space with absence of herniated neural tissue and...

Jan 25th, 2023 - Progressive Vision Loss in an Adult With Congenital Optic Nerve Coloboma, Hydrocephalus, and Basal Encephalocele.|2023|Wotipka EK,Karowadia KM,Davila PA,Laylani NA,Lee AG,|

Jan 15th, 2023 - The goal of this study was to investigate and identify the predictors associated with the incidence of hydrocephalus requiring shunt insertion in patients with encephalocele (EC), and to develop a scoring system to estimate the probability of hydr...

Jan 15th, 2023 - Chiari malformation (CM)-III is the rarest anomaly among CMs.1 Treatment of choice is surgical repair,2 although poor outcome and postoperative mortality has been reported.3 Surgical timing is still debated.4,5 We present the case of a male infant...

Jan 7th, 2023 - Complex vertex and posterior encephaloceles containing brain tissue have uncertain prognosis and high operative risk. Patients may not be offered operative intervention depending on local and regional specialist expertise. The authors present thei...

Aug 31st, 2021 - Detailed Description: This observational case-control study will be conducted at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cengiz Gokcek Public Hospital, Gaziantep, Turkey, between August 2020 and March 2021. The protocol was approved by the Et...

Feb 21st, 2021 - Human diseases caused by defects of the primary cilium (ciliopathies) are a group of distinct disorders with overlapping features. Clinical features of ciliopathies include fibrocystic disease of the kidneys and liver, retinal degeneration, obesit...

Dec 12th, 2019 - Neural tube closure defects are among the most common birth defects. They are also called Spina Bifida or spinal dysraphism. According to the latest epidemiological studies in Europe based on the EUROCAT register (1991-2011), the prevalence of neu...

Jun 3rd, 2010 - Design: multicentric Aims of this study: to describe clinical and genetic basis of Joubert syndrome and cerebello-oculo-renal syndromes.Joubert syndrome (JS) is characterized by hypotonia, abnormal ocular movements and neonatal breathing dysregula...

Nov 11th, 2020 - This transcript has been edited for clarity. Robert D. Glatter, MD: Hi. I'm Dr Robert Glatter, medical advisor for Medscape Emergency Medicine. I would like to welcome Dr Nina Shapiro, a professor and director of pediatric otolaryngology at the Da...

Oct 1st, 2020 - Nasal swabbing to test for COVID-19 may have caused a patient to begin leaking cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), researchers reported. The woman in her 40s underwent testing prior to an elective hernia repair, and shortly thereafter developed a variety o...

Oct 1st, 2020 - Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center. A rare case of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leak occurred after a healthcare worker inadvertently swabbed a previously unidentified encephalocele dur...

Dec 4th, 2018 - Prenatal ultrasound can identify most abnormalities in fetuses exposed to Zika virus during pregnancy, and neuroimaging after birth can detect infant exposure in cases that appeared normal on prenatal ultrasound, according to research published in.

Nov 26th, 2018 - While prenatal ultrasound imaging detected fetal abnormalities among most infants with intrauterine exposure to Zika virus, a few had abnormalities that were only seen during postnatal imaging, researchers found. In a cohort of 82 pregnant women, ...