Venous Doppler in the fetus with absent end-diastolic flow in the umbilical artery

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 262-267

  Gudmundsson, S ^a   Tulzer, G ^c   Huhta, J C ^b   Marsal, K ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasound; Fetal heart sparing; Inferior vena cava; Middle cerebral artery; Perinatal mortality; Umbilical artery; Umbilical vein; Venous pulsations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN ARTERY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS DISEASE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL VEIN;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL VEINS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0030120560     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0705.1996.07040262.x     Document Type: Article

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