Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland

Dr. Allan Goldman:

That is a good question for this group of patients. I worked with one of the spinal surgeons to try to answer that question. The surgeon did a literature review to try to gather as many papers as possible on children with spina bifida who had spinal surgery, especially kyphectomy operations. It is an appendix at the back of our combined report. The surgeon found 14 papers spanning more than 20 years between 2000 and 2022 in nine countries of which-----

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