Historical Clinical Outcomes of Children with Myelomeningocele Meeting the Criteria for Fetal Surgery: A Retrospective Cohort Survey of Brazilian Patients.
Fernando Maia Peixoto FilhoTatiana Protzenko CervanteAntônio Rosa BellasSaint Clair Dos Santos Gomes-JúniorDenise Araújo LapaGregório Lorenzo AcácioPaulo Roberto Nassar de CarvalhoRenato Augusto Moreira de SáPublished in: Revista brasileira de ginecologia e obstetricia : revista da Federacao Brasileira das Sociedades de Ginecologia e Obstetricia (2022)
Children with MMC qualifying for fetal surgery who underwent shunt placement were more likely to have recurrent UTIs, develop renal failure, and be hospitalized. Since approximately half of the shunt procedures could be avoided by fetal surgery, there is a clinical benefit and a possible financial benefit to the implementation of this technology in our setting.
Keyphrases
- minimally invasive
- coronary artery bypass
- young adults
- surgical site infection
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- primary care
- pulmonary artery
- percutaneous coronary intervention
- prognostic factors
- cross sectional
- patient reported outcomes
- coronary artery
- quality improvement
- acute coronary syndrome
- pulmonary hypertension
- patient reported