Conditions We Treat

Babies — whether born early or right on time — can face serious health challenges. Our NICU team at Phoenix Children’s diagnoses and treats a wide range of common and more complex conditions affecting newborns and infants. These include:

• Birth injury or birth trauma

• Chromosomal anomalies

• Congenital heart disease

• Diaphragmatic hernia

• Drug (substance) exposure

• Genitourinary disorders and kidney disorders

• Hydrocephalus

• Hyperbilirubinemia

• Infant of a mother with diabetes

• Infant infection (sepsis)

• Meconium aspiration

• Omphalocele or gastroschisis

• Prematurity

• Pulmonary hypertension

• Respiratory distress syndrome

• Seizures

• Stroke

• Spina bifida

• Tracheoesophageal fistula (TE fistula) and esophageal atresia