Demonstration of fetal coronary blood flow by Doppler ultrasound in relation to arterial and venous flow velocity waveforms and perinatal outcome - The 'heart-sparing effect'

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 162-172

  Baschat, A A ^a   Gembruch, U ^a   Reiss, I ^a   Gortner, L ^a   Diedrich, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular valve regurgitation; Coronary artery flow velocity waveform; Doppler sonography; Fetal coronary blood flow; Fetal heart; Fetal hypoxia; Fetal surveillance; Fetus; Intrauterine growth retardation; Prenatal medicine; Ultrasound; Uteroplacental insufficiency

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PH; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FETUS DEATH; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL VEIN; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0030909337     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-0705.1997.09030162.x     Document Type: Article

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