Trends and outcomes after prenatal diagnosis of congenital cardiac malformations by fetal echocardiography in a well defined birth population, Atlanta, Georgia, 1990-1994

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1805-1809

  Montaña, Eduardo ^a,c   Khoury, Muin J ^a   Cragan, Janet D ^b   Sharma, Shiva ^b   Dhar, Pradip ^a   Fyfe, Derek ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Children's Heart Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; GEORGIA; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0030465605     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(96)00381-6     Document Type: Article

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