Minimally Invasive Fusionless Surgery for Scoliosis in Spinal Muscular Atrophy: Long-term Follow-up Results in a Series of 59 Patients.

Background: Treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) scoliosis has evolved in the last decade, with the emergence of fusionless surgical techniques that allow correction of the deformity before the end of growth spurt. These techniques are expected to delay definitive spine fusion and preserve trunk growth.

Purpose: The aim was to evaluate long-term clinical, radiologic, and respiratory outcomes of a minimally invasive fusionless surgery (MIFLS) in SMA scoliosis.

Nocturnal Urinary Disorders and Multiple Sclerosis: Clinical and Urodynamic Study of 309 Patients.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to describe nocturia with or without leakage in a population of patients with multiple sclerosis.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective, single center study of 309 patients with multiple sclerosis who were followed at an experienced neurourology center between 2011 and 2013. All patients had daytime urinary symptoms associated with this disorder.

Contribution of sacral neuromodulation to manage persistent voiding dysfunction after surgery for deep infiltrating endometriosis with colorectal involvement: preliminary results.

Objective: Around 5% of women experience persistent voiding dysfunction after surgery for deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) with colorectal involvement. The gold standard to manage persistent voiding dysfunction is intermittent self-catherization, but this treatment may reduce quality of life of the patients due to care constraints. The objective of our study was to assess the contribution of sacral neuromodulation (SNM) in the management of persistent voiding dysfunction secondary to surgery for DIE with colorectal resection.

Need to void and attentional process interrelationships.

Objectives: To determine whether a strong urge to void could affect a person's attentional performance. To determine whether an attentional task could decrease a strong urge to void a prospective study was performed.

Subjects And Methods: Healthy adults were asked to perform two neuropsychological tests, the modified Paced Auditory Serial Addition Test (mPASAT) and the Psychology Experiment Building Language Continuous Performance Test (pCPT), under two different conditions: no need to void, and a strong urge to void defined by a score of >70/100 mm on a visual analogue scale.

Qualitative and quantitative analysis of rectoanal inhibitory reflex (RAIR) modulation in functional bowel disorders.

Background: Rectoanal inhibitory reflex (RAIR) is a physiological reflex implicated in anorectal continence. A lack of RAIR modulation is only described in spinal cord-injured patients with a lesion under L2. No quantitative data has been published concerning the normal modulation in amplitude and in duration in functional disorders.

Pencil and paper test: a new tool to predict the ability of neurological patients to practice clean intermittent self-catheterization.

Purpose: We created and validated the new pencil and paper test, which allows assessment of the ability of patients with a neurological disorder to practice clean intermittent self-catheterization.

Materials And Methods: We developed a simple test including common gestures mimicking the usual maneuvers needed during clean intermittent self-catheterization, and involving the same cognitive and physical resources needed for this technique. We evaluated the test in 118 patients with a neurological condition.