Infection rate correlated with time to repair of open neural tube defects (myelomeningoceles): an institutional and national study.
Frank J AttenelloAlexander TuchmanEisha A ChristianTimothy WenKi-Eun ChangSwathi NallapaSteven Y CenWilliam J MackMark D KriegerJ Gordon McCombPublished in: Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (2016)
Myelomeningocele closure, when delayed more than 1 day after birth, is associated with an increased rate of infection and length of stay in the national cohort. High-volume centers are associated with fewer delays to repair. Though constrained by limitations of a national coded database, these results suggest that early myelomeningocele repair decreases the rate of infection.