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Complications

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These include:

  • hydrocephalus as a result of abnormal architecture
  • recurrent urinary tract infections as a result of incontinence and incomplete voiding. If there is a reflex bladder with incomplete emptying and high intravesical pressures, which may result in reflux and hydronephrosis
  • meningitis, especially in open defects or in association with shunts.

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