Medical advances in paediatric surgery offer effective treatment for many birth defects. Early diagnosis and specialist care ...

Dakota Braithwaite was born with bladder exstrophy - a birth defect where the bladder is exposed outside the body through an ...

Staged reconstruction repair of bladder exstrophy results in hydronephrosis or renal scarring in 15-25% of patients. A cosmetically acceptable and functional phallus can be achieved in 85% of ...

Differential diagnoses of gastroschisis include omphalocele, ruptured omphalocele, limb–body wall complex, bladder exstrophy ... management as soon as the baby is born. The type and extent ...

The aims of reconstructive surgery in patients with bladder exstrophy are to maintain kidney function, achieve urinary continence and to create or preserve functionally normal external genitalia ...

whereby doctors will try and see if the baby has a bladder and if it is filling and emptying as normal.” Bladder exstrophy can only be corrected through surgery. One of the aims of the surgery is to ...

The little girl was diagnosed in the womb with bladder exstrophy, a rare condition that comes as a result of the pelvis not fusing properly in utero, causing the bladder to grow outside the body.

If the baby cannot tolerate a procedure of this magnitude ... 2 1772-1821. John P. Gearhart: The bladder exstrophy-epispadias complex. In: Pediatric Urology. Es Gearhart JP, Rink RR, and Mouriquand P.

Two percent of all newborns have a congenital malformation ... characteristics are affected in women with CAH and that has not been investigated before. Bladder exstrophy is a rare malformation when ...

Bladder exstrophy (BE) is a congenital genito-urinary malformation ... caesarean section at term by midline laparotomy with a good outcome for both mother and baby. A 32-year-old primigravida woman ...