CHOP Surgeons Separate Twin Girls Joined at the Chest and Abdomen

Addison and Lilianna Altobelli spent nearly a year at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia before being separated on October 13, 2021, and are now home in Chicago.
Read moreAddison and Lilianna Altobelli spent nearly a year at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia before being separated on October 13, 2021, and are now home in Chicago.
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CHOP researchers have found infants born via uncomplicated cesarean delivery should not need antibiotics at birth to prevent early-onset sepsis.
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Families in CHOP’s Newborn/Infant Intensive Care Unit (N/IICU) celebrate the spookiest day of the year by dressing babies in adorable Halloween costumes.
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CHOP researchers found that a plurality of hospitals delivers fewer than 500 infants per year and that nearly a fifth of low-volume hospitals are more than 30 miles from another obstetric hospital.
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Creating a legacy that enriches the present as well as the future.
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The birth of CHOP's 2,000th fetal surgery patient marks a record-breaking milestone for CHOP’s Richard D. Wood Jr. Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment.
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A new program aims to provide consistent physical, emotional, spiritual, mental and social health supports to help families thrive.
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CHOP's specialized Pulmonary Hypoplasia Program provides ongoing developmental and medical assessments from infancy through adolescence, with the goal of looking beyond short-term surgical survival and providing long-term clinical care to improve quality of life.
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It is well known that having a baby in the neonatal intensive care unit is a highly stressful experience for parents, and rates of parental anxiety and depression are routinely shown to be higher than for parents in the general population.
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CHOP researchers have found mice exposed to neonatal hyperoxia have increased influenza susceptibility and disrupted lung circadian clocks.