Johns Hopkins Medicine
St. Petersburg, FL, USA
When your child needs care, our compassionate team has years of experience in meeting the medical needs of children of all ages.
Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital is a premiere clinical and academic health system, providing expert pediatric care for infants, children and teens with some of the most challenging medical problems. We are the #1 Children's Hospital in Florida and Nationally ranked in specialties' that include Cardiology, Endocrinology and More!
Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a rare birth defect affecting approximately one in 3,000 fetuses. CDH occurs when the diaphragm (the muscle separating the chest from the abdomen) does not form properly during fetal development. This results in a hole in the diaphragm and allows the abdominal organs to migrate into the chest. This could mean having the intestines, stomach, spleen and sometimes liver in the chest. The presence of these abdominal organs in the chest compresses the lungs and prevents them from...