Advanced Fetal Care Center (AFCC)

Tissue engineered diaphragms for treatment of congenital diaphragmatic hernia

Dario Fauza, MD, of the Department of Surgery, is currently investigating the use of mesenchymal amniocytes to engineer diaphragms for the treatment of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH).

Read The graft that keeps on giving from the spring 2005 issue of Dream Magazine Online and watch the video below.

Participation in this study is anticipated to begin in the spring of 2011. Participation details forthcoming.