Status:

COMPLETED

Fetal Surgery for Moderate Left Sided Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia.

Lead Sponsor:

University Hospital, Gasthuisberg

Collaborating Sponsors:

King's College Hospital NHS Trust (UK)

Hospital Clinic of Barcelona

Conditions:

Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

Fetal Surgery

Eligibility:

FEMALE

18+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

Isolated Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH) can be diagnosed in the prenatal period, and remains associated with a 30 % chance of perinatal death and morbidity mainly because of pulmonary hypoplasi...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Patients aged 18 years or more, who are able to consent
  • Singleton pregnancy
  • Anatomically and chromosomally normal fetus
  • Left sided diaphragmatic hernia
  • Gestation at randomization prior to 31 wks plus 5 d (so that occlusion is done at the latest on 31 wks plus 6 d)
  • Estimated to have moderate pulmonary hypoplasia, defined prenatally as:
  • O/E LHR 25-34.9% (included; irrespective of the position of the liver)
  • O/E LHR 35-44.9% (included) with intrathoracic liver herniation as determined by ultrasound or MRI
  • Acceptance of randomization and the consequences for the further management during pregnancy and thereafter.
  • The patients must undertake the responsibility for either remaining close to, or at the FETO center, or being able to travel swiftly and within acceptable time interval to the FETO center until the balloon is removed.
  • Intended postnatal treatment center must subscribe to suggested guidelines for "standardized postnatal treatment".
  • Provide written consent to participate in this RCT

Exclusion

  • Maternal contraindication to fetoscopic surgery or severe medical condition in pregnancy that make fetal intervention risk full
  • Technical limitations precluding fetoscopic surgery, such as severe maternal obesity, uterine fibroids or potentially others, not anticipated at the time of writing this protocol.
  • Preterm labour, cervix shortened (\<15 mm at randomization) or uterine anomaly strongly predisposing to preterm labour, placenta previa
  • Patient age less than 18 years
  • Psychosocial ineligibility, precluding consent
  • Diaphragmatic hernia: right-sided or bilateral, major anomalies, isolated left-sided outside the O/E LHR limits for the inclusion criteria
  • Patient refusing randomization or to comply with return to FETO center during the time period the airways are occluded or for elective removal of the balloon

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

August 1 2010

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

March 1 2020

Estimated Enrollment :

196 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00763737

Start Date

August 1 2010

End Date

March 1 2020

Last Update

December 3 2020

Active Locations (13)

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Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital

Houston, Texas, United States, 77030

2

University of Texas Health Science Center

Houston, Texas, United States, 77030

3

Mater Mother's Hospital

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4101

4

University Hospitals Leuven

Leuven, Belgium, 3000