Rerouting Urinary Nerves May Help Spina Bifida, William Beaumont Hospital Pilot Study

WASHINGTON – It’s a delicate and daring experiment: Could doctors switch a leg nerve to make it operate the bladder instead? Families of a few U.S. children whose spina bifida robs them of the bladder control that most people take for granted dared to try the procedure — and early results suggest the surgery indeed may help, in at least some patients.

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