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The authors evaluated MRIs performed before hospital discharge in 53 infants with congenital diaphragmatic hernia that were scored forbrain injury by 2 pediatric neuroradiologists. Potential associations with perinatal and clinical variables from the neonatal intensive care unit stay were probed. The most common findings were enlarged extra-axial spaces (36%), intraventricular hemorrhage (23%), ventriculomegaly (19%), white matter injury (17%), and cerebellar hemorrhage (17%). Brain injury score was associated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, lack of oral feeding at discharge, use of inotropes, and gastrostomy tube placement before hospital discharge.