With his cloacal exstrophy, his intestines and bladder were also outside his body, not inside the omphalocele but underneath it. “Essentially, the liver is kind of in a protected bubble.

Dawson Grant was born with several birth defects and underwent many surgeries. He is now thriving and is like "any 2-year-old ...

Dakota Braithwaite was born with bladder exstrophy - a birth defect where the bladder is exposed outside the body through an opening in the lower abdominal wall. The condition occurs in 1 in 50,000 ...

Differential diagnoses of gastroschisis include omphalocele, ruptured omphalocele, limb–body wall complex, bladder exstrophy, cloacal exstrophy, ectopia cordis, pentalogy of Cantrell, umbilical ...

Bladder exstrophy, seen in approximately one in 10,000 to 50,000 births, is defined by Johns Hopkins Medicine as an abnormality in the formation of the bladder and the bony pelvis. Instead of forming ...

The bladder is closed and the pelvic bones are brought together into their normal ring structure. The bowel is brought out to a stoma (bag) on the wall of the abdomen. If the baby cannot tolerate a ...

The following is an excerpt of “A Road Map for the Management of a Pregnancy Complicated by Maternal Bladder Exstrophy,” published in the March 2024 issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology by Hosiani et al ...

When they learned their baby would likely be born with bladder exstrophy, “our heads were spinning,” David says. “We are obsessive researchers, but it was hard to wrap our heads around.” A local ...