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Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
Pediatric Surgery · Respiratory
Severe
Severity
Rare — affects about 1 in 2,500 to 3,000 live births
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Pediatric Surgery
Specialist
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Congenital diaphragmatic hernia results from incomplete fusion of the diaphragm during fetal development between roughly the eighth and tenth week of gestation
- 2allowing abdominal contents to herniate into the thoracic cavity. In most cases the cause is unknown and the defect occurs sporadically
- 3though a minority of cases are linked to chromosomal abnormalities
- 4genetic syndromes
- 5or environmental exposures during pregnancy. A family history of the condition modestly increases risk in subsequent pregnancies.
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