Increase of fetal hematocrit decreases the middle cerebral artery peak systolic velocity in pregnancies complicated by rhesus alloimmunization

Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 206-208

  Mari, Giancarlo ^a   Rahman, Feryal ^b   Olofsson, Per ^b   Ozcan, Tulin ^a   Copel, Joshua A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Blood velocity; Doppler ultrasound; Fetal anemia; Middle cerebral artery

Indexed keywords

RHESUS ANTIGEN;

ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ERYTHROCYTE CONCENTRATE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS ISOIMMUNIZATION;

ANEMIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION, INTRAUTERINE; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; RH ISOIMMUNIZATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0030836429     PISSN: 14767058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/14767059709161986     Document Type: Article

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