title: Myelodysplastics--fate of those followed for twenty years or more.
abstract: Of a total of 143 myelodysplastic patients treated between 1928 and 1951, there were sixty-three patients with severe myelodysplasia whose records allowed long-term review. At the time of writing twenty-nine were alive and were twenty to forty-three years old. All were walking in the hospital while under an intensive physical therapy program. However only two of the nine with twelfth thoracic-second lumbar function were walking at final follow-up as adults, while nineteen of the twenty with function at the third lumbar level were doing so. The status of the hips did not correlate with the ability to walk. One-third of the survivors were self-supporting at the time of writing. About one-half had scoliosis and in one-third was greater than 20 degrees.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005242:Fecal Incontinence / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006617:Hip Dislocation / Q000209:etiology; D006621:Hip Joint / Q000503:physiopathology; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008124:Locomotion; D008297:Male; D026741:Physical Therapy Modalities; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000209:etiology; D016135:Spinal Dysraphism / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000209:etiology