(Photo Credit: Corbis Documentary/Getty Images) Spina bifida occulta (SBO). This is the most common and mildest form. Many people don't even know they have it. ("Occulta" means "hidden" in Latin.) ...

It is a neural tube defect. There are four main types of spina bifida: myelomeningocele spina bifida occulta closed neural tube defects meningocele Myelomeningocele is the most severe type.

Spina bifida is typically diagnosed during pregnancy or immediately after birth. But a mild form of spina bifida, which rarely causes symptoms, can go unnoticed until adulthood. Spina bifida is a ...

Spina bifida is Latin for split spine and is a birth defect in which an area of the spinal column doesn’t form properly, ...

In this episode of the Medtronic series Open Book, Manny shares how spina bifida impacts his life in unseen ways.

Symptoms of Spina bifida Spina bifida occurs in early pregnancy when the neural tube, a structure that eventually forms the brain and spinal cord, fails to close properly. As a result of this the ...

When the spine or spinal cord do not form properly during human development, a disorder called spina bifida, or meningomyelocele arises. People born with this condition can have very different ...

Nick Heilig: Just for people who might not know what spina bifida is, it occurs when the spine and the spinal cord don't form properly. Spina bifida in Latin means split spine, so like the nerves ...

They began looking for 22q11.2del in spinal bifida patients. "All patients we recruited have the most severe form of spina bifida, and all underwent best-practice comprehensive genomic sequencing ...

Roughly 600 babies are born with spina bifida in the UK every year, according to studies. It happens when, during development, the spine and spinal cord do not form normally. During ...

held in place with a biomaterial scaffold to form a “patch,” helped lambs with spina bifida walk without noticeable disability. “When the baby sheep who received stem cells were born ...