Role of the pulmonary circulation in the distribution of human fetal cardiac output during the second half of pregnancy

Circulation

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1068-1073

  Rasanen, Juha ^a   Wood, Dennis C ^a   Weiner, Stuart ^a   Ludomirski, Abraham ^b   Huhta, James C ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiac output; echocardiography; hemodynamics; physiology; ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029831363     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.94.5.1068     Document Type: Article

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