Expectation of life and unexpected death in open spina bifida: 40 year complete, non-selective longitudinal cohort study

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This article is part of the supplement: 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida .

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Expectation of life and unexpected death in open spina bifida: 40 year complete, non-selective longitudinal cohort study

Pippa Oakeshott , Gillian M Hunt, Alison Poulton and Fiona Reid

Community Health Sciences, St George's, University of London, SW17 ORE, UK

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from 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Research into Hydrocephalus and Spina Bifida
Belfast, UK. 24-27 June 2009

Cerebrospinal Fluid Research 2009, 6(Suppl 2):S4doi:10.1186/1743-8454-6-S2-S4


Published:	27 November 2009

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There are few data on long term survival in open spina bifida. Predictions based on hospital studies with relatively short follow up may be over optimistic and omit unexpected deaths occurring in the community. We investigated survival, causes of death, and lifestyle in a complete cohort of open spina bifida at the mean age of 40 years.