Diagnostic Value of Blood Sampling in Fetuses with Growth Retardation

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 328, Issue 10, 1993, Pages 692-696

  Pardi, Giorgio ^a   Cetin, Irene ^a   Marconi, Anna Maria ^a   Lanfranchi, Antonella ^a   Bozzetti, Patrizia ^a   Farrazzi, Enrico ^a   Buscaglia, Mauro ^a   Battaglia, Frederick C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN; LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD GAS; BLOOD PH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORDOCENTESIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD;

ACIDOSIS; AMINO ACIDS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORDOCENTESIS; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; FETAL ANOXIA; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HEART RATE, FETAL; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMAN; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; LACTATES; LACTIC ACID; OXYGEN; PREGNANCY; RHEOLOGY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0027459154     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199303113281004     Document Type: Article

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