omphalocele
MONDO:0019015Mondo
Findings
No curated finding names omphalocele yet. Everything below is reference data from Mondo, HPO and GenCC, not evidence about what affects it.
Definition
Omphalocele is an embryopathy classified in the group of abdominal celosomias and is characterized by a large hernia of the abdominal wall, centered on the umbilical cord, in which the protruding viscera are protected by a sac.
Definition from the Mondo Disease Ontology (MONDO:0019015), read 2026-09-29. CC BY 4.0.
Features
7 features
What the disease is reported to present with, and how often among people who have it — never how often a feature means the disease. HPO, annotations 2026-09-02.
- OmphaloceleHPOHP:0001539
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Premature birthHPOHP:0001622
- Very frequent (80% to 99% of cases)
- Feeding difficulties in infancyHPOHP:0008872
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Pulmonary hypoplasiaHPOHP:0002089
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Restrictive ventilatory defectHPOHP:0002091
- Frequent (30% to 79% of cases)
- Failure to thrive in infancyHPOHP:0001531
- Occasional (5% to 29% of cases)
- Gastroesophageal refluxHPOHP:0002020
- Occasional (5% to 29% of cases)
Where it sits
- A kind of
Other names
3 names
Resolves to: omphalocele
- Also called
- congenital omphaloceleexomphalosomphalocele (disease)