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What are the parameters are to qualify for FETO? (LHR, liver placement, mom isn't obese, gestational age, clean genetics, etc) those are some of the ones I remember from when we considered it. My understanding was that they do it on those babies they don't think have much of a chance of surviving anyway. Is that true?

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cdhmomma2016 | @cdhmomma2016 | Oct 24, 2017

That was my understanding. We didn't qualify until we learned our son was more severe and his chances of survival dropped.

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Colleen Young, Connect Director | @colleenyoung | Oct 27, 2017

Dr. Ruano writes: "The parameters to qualify for FETO are: (1) isolated CDH (no other structural or chromosomal abnormalities) and severe CDH (measured by the lung area-to-head circumference ratio, if it is less than 30% of expected for the gestational age)."

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