It is well known that having a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit is a highly stressful experience for parents, and rates of parental anxiety and depression are routinely shown to be higher than for parents in the general population.

CHOP's specialized Pulmonary Hypoplasia Program provides ongoing developmental and medical assessments from infancy through adolescence, with the goal of looking beyond short-term surgical survival and providing long-term clinical care to improve quality of life.

Learn more about Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia's efforts to define the underlying genetic etiologies of CDH to better understand why CDH occurs and how it can be more effectively treated.

Early recognition, treatment and management of CDH-related pulmonary hypertension is critical. Our team takes an early and aggressive approach to treatment, and our protocols have been extremely successful.

For babies prenatally diagnosed with conditions such as CDH that will require surgery shortly after birth, a unique model of care greatly improves management of these fragile newborns.

New findings from the latest MOMS2 analysis show prenatal repair of the spinal column confers physical gains that extend into childhood.

In the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, one Virginia family chose CHOP for their daughter’s heart repair.

For 25 years, CHOP’s Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment has worked tirelessly to advance the field of fetal medicine and offer lifesaving care for pregnancies diagnosed with birth defects. Here, we reflect on the past and think ahead to what the future holds.

William H. Peranteau, MD, fetal surgeon and researcher, will be inaugural chair holder of the Adzick-McCausland Distinguished Chair in Fetal and Pediatric Surgery.

Awards from Press Ganey highlight care provided by the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment and its Garbose Family Special Delivery Unit.