Congenital diaphragmatic hernia care at Mayo Clinic
Your Mayo Clinic care team
Mayo Clinic Children's Center has the expertise to manage patients with complex conditions, including children with congenital diaphragmatic hernia. With Mayo Clinic's team approach, experts from different specialties come together to develop a personalized treatment plan and provide family-centered care.
Our multispecialty team includes experts in maternal and fetal medicine, pediatric surgery, neonatology, radiology and anesthesiology, and other specialties as needed.
Advanced diagnosis and treatment
Mayo Clinic experts use the latest diagnostic technology and treatment procedures for identifying and treating certain conditions that are detected before birth, including
CDH. Mayo Clinic is pioneering advances in fetal surgery, allowing for earlier intervention to manage these conditions.
Your medical team performs a fetal ultrasound (sonogram), such as a 3D or 4D ultrasound, Doppler ultrasound, fetal echocardiography, fetal MRI, and other tests as needed to assess your baby's condition.
After a thorough and personalized medical assessment of both you and your baby, your health care team discusses the options, such as choosing between open fetal surgery or less invasive procedures and care after delivery. Your team can help you evaluate the potential benefits and risks of fetal surgery and discuss short-term and long-term follow-up care.
Your medical team works to establish collaborative relationships so that the team can share information on care with your child's home physician or other health care provider.
Expertise and rankings
Nationally recognized expertise
Mayo Clinic Children's Center in Minnesota is one of only a few medical centers in the United States with the expertise to perform fetal surgery to improve the outcomes of babies with conditions that are detected before birth, including congenital diaphragmatic hernia. The outstanding fetal surgeons and their experienced teams are recognized as national leaders in both treatment and research.
Specialty care
In a caring and compassionate environment, highly skilled fetal surgery experts at Mayo Clinic Children's Center offer the most advanced procedures and technology for treating CDH before birth to improve outcomes.
Mayo Clinic's Newborn Intensive Care Unit (NICU) specializes in family-centered care of premature and critically ill newborn infants. Family members are welcome at the baby's bedside. They will find many support spaces throughout the unit, such as family waiting areas and rooms, parent sleep rooms, and breastfeeding rooms.
Continuity of care
Mayo's NICU Follow-up Clinic ensures continuity of quality care after your baby's discharge from the NICU. The Pediatric Surgery Outpatient Clinic also follows your child to ensure the CDH repair remains in place.
As part of Mayo Clinic Children's Center, a multispecialty team of Mayo experts provides follow-up care for your child after birth and helps manage the condition. For example, Mayo Clinic pediatric experts provide the highest quality care for children with CDH and manage any complications.
Mayo Clinic provides lifelong care for children with CDH and other serious conditions that develop before birth. So your child will be able to transition to adult care when the time arrives — and be assured that the highest quality care will continue.