Fetal atrioventricular flow-velocity waveforms and their relation to atrial and venous flow-velocity waveforms at 8 to 20 weeks of gestation

Circulation

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1372-1378

  Van Splunder, Paula ^a   Stijnen, Theo ^a   Wladimiroff, Juriy W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

arteries; blood flow; echocardiography; pregnancy; veins

Indexed keywords

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR VALVE; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0029794512     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.94.6.1372     Document Type: Article

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