Nemours Children's Health

G. Dean MacEwen, MD, former medical director of the Alfred I. duPont Institute, died on Aug. 6 at the age of 96 years.

Results showed a novel posterior column osteotomy technique may be effective in improving deformity correction in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis undergoing posterior spinal fusion.

In this video, Kevin M. Neal, MD, discussed the relationship between rates of neural axis abnormalities in patients with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis and the potential need for neurosurgical intervention.

Presented results showed low-density spinal fusion constructs achieved comparable curve correction with reduced OR times compared with higher-density constructs for pediatric patients with neuromuscular scoliosis.

In this video, Kevin M. Neal, MD, discussed a novel posterior dynamic distraction device that may be effective for treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.

Although children with physical disabilities had lower health-related quality of life measures vs. their peers, results showed such patients had minimal differences in happiness that did not correlate with functional mobility.

Data from qualitative interviews show parents and caregivers understand and worry about hypertension as a chronic disease, yet expressed little concern when high BP was noted for their children in the clinic, researchers reported.

Congenital heart defects are the most common type of birth defect, affecting nearly 1% of births per year in the United States, according to the CDC.

Use of 3D imaging, selective fusion and limiting construct length may improve the treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, according to results.

In this video, Jeanne M. Franzone, MD, discussed results that showed supplemental plate and screw constructs can be effective in patients with osteogenesis imperfecta undergoing intramedullary rodding.