The clinical significance of an absent end-diastolic velocity in the umbilical artery detected before the 34th week of pregnancy

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 398-404

  Kurkinen Räty, Merja ^a   Kivelä, Aarre ^a   Jouppila, Pentti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasonography; Fetal distress; Intrauterine growth retardation; Pregnancy hypertension; Umbilical artery

Indexed keywords

APGAR SCORE; ARTERIAL PH; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DELIVERY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS MALFORMATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

EID: 0030919997     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00016349709047818     Document Type: Article

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