Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is not as well known as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, but like them it is a life-threatening birth defect, and is just as common. Occurring in one in ...

A Johns Hopkins Children Center study using medical records from an international registry concludes that female babies with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) are slightly more likely to die ...

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a common, life-threatening birth defect. Often, CDH occurs with other birth defects (CDH+). In a new study, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have ...

If you’ve had an ultrasound and found out your unborn baby has congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), you probably have a lot of questions. Dr. Stephen Fenton is a pediatric surgeon with University of ...

Doctors of Gleneagles Global Health City treated a preterm baby of 30 weeks for congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH). It is a condition where a hole in the diaphragm causes the intestines and other ...

In the fall of 2023, Songo Wawa was five months pregnant going into a routine anatomy scan at Sibley Memorial Hospital, a member of Johns Hopkins Medicine in Washington, D.C. This appointment would ...

The diaphragm is a dome-shaped muscular barrier between the chest and abdominal cavities. It separates your heart and lungs from your abdominal organs (stomach, intestines, spleen, and liver). A ...

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) occurs when a baby's diaphragam, the muscle that separates the chest from the abdomen, fails to close during prenatal development. This causes the contents of ...

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