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Background  Aim of this retrospective study was to describe clinical characteristics, diagnostic work-up, management and follow-up of newborns with neural tube defects (NTDs), admitted to the Mother and Child Department of the University Hospital of Palermo, in a ten years period.    Methods  The medical records of 7 newborns (5 males and 2 females) admitted, over a 10-year period from January 2010 to March 2020, to our Department on the first day of life were reviewed. Analyzed data were related to familiar and/or maternal risk factors (consanguinity, maternal preexisting and/or gestational diseases, exposure to teratogen/infectious agents, lack of preconception folic acid supplement), demographic (ethnicity/origin, residence) and clinical features (eventual use of assisted reproduction techniques, prenatal diagnosis, gestational age, fetal presentation, type of delivery, birth weight, preoperative imaging, antibiotics and analgesics use, description of the surgery intervention, length of hospital stay, comorbidities, complications), and follow-up.    Results  In our sample we observed a wide spectrum of NTDs: 3 newborns had open NTDs, namely myelomeningocele (2 lumbosacral, one of which associated with extradural lipoma, and 1 sacral), and 4 closed ones, including 2 with meningocele (occipital), 1 filar lipoma associated with dermal sinus, and 1 terminal myelocystocele. Our patients were discharged between 8 and 22 days of life.  The neurodevelopmental follow-up showed a favorable outcome for 4 of the 7 patients, and the appearance over time of neurological impairment (motor and/or autonomic) in the newborns with open NTDs.    Conclusions  This study describes familiar and/or maternal risk factors and demographic and clinical features of a single-center series of newborns with NTDs. It may provide a further outline of the actual phenotypic spectrum of these malformations, and new insights into epidemiological aspects and comprehensive management of the patients, including diagnostic work-up and follow-up evaluations.

Neonatal ten-year retrospective study on neural tube defects in a second level University Hospital