Doppler Assessment of Physiological Stenosis at the Bifurcation of the Main Pulmonary Artery: A Cause of Functional Murmur in Neonates

Neonatology

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 243-248

  So, Bai Horng ^a,b   Watanabe, Toyoko ^a   Yanagisawa, Masayoshi ^b  

^a Tokyo Metropolitan Tsukiji Maternity Hospital   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Functional murmur; Physiological stenosis; Pulmonary artery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; NEWBORN; PREMATURITY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR;

ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; HEART MURMURS; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PULMONARY ARTERY; SYSTOLE;

EID: 0029939118     PISSN: 16617800     EISSN: 16617819     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000244317     Document Type: Article

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