Fetal surgery for congenital diaphragmatic hernia is back from never gone

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 6-17

  Deprest, Jan A ^a   Nicolaides, Kypros ^b   Gratacos, Eduard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia; Endoscopic tracheal occlusion, fetal; Fetal intervention; Fetoscopy; Pulmonary hypoplasia

Indexed keywords

LUNG SURFACTANT; PERFLUOROOCTYL BROMIDE;

BALLOON OCCLUSION; CANNULATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE GENOMIC HYBRIDIZATION; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; DEVICE REMOVAL; DEVICE THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; EARLY INTERVENTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC TRACHEAL DISSECTION; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTAL SURGERY; FETAL THERAPY; FETOSCOPIC ENDOLUMINAL TRACHEAL OCCLUSION; FETOSCOPY; FETUS BREATHING; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS KARYOTYPING; FETUS LUNG; FETUS LUNG MATURITY; FETUS OUTCOME; FETUS SURGERY; FETUS WEIGHT; FOAM PLUG; GESTATIONAL AGE; HERNIOPLASTY; HIGH RESOLUTION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYSTEROTOMY; IN UTERO ANATOMICAL DIAPHRAGMATIC REPAIR; LAPAROTOMY; LUNG CIRCULATION; LUNG COMPLIANCE; LUNG DEVELOPMENT; LUNG FLUID; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; LUNG VOLUME; MEDICAL ABORTION; MEDICAL HISTORY; NECK DISSECTION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NEWBORN DISEASE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT GUIDANCE; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL METAPLASIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY EFFECT; TRACHEA DISEASE; TRACHEA INJURY; TRACHEA PRESSURE; TRACHEA SURGERY; TRACHEAL OCCLUSION; TRACHEOMEGALY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

FETOSCOPY; FETUS; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LUNG; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TRACHEA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79951793518     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000322844     Document Type: Review

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