Prenatal diagnosis of idopathic stenosis of the ductus arteriosus associated with fetal atrial flutter

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 46-49

  Mielke, Gunther ^a   Steil, Egon ^a   Gonser, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ductus arteriosus; Fetal atrial flutter; Fetal tachycardia; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

DIGOXIN; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HYDROPS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; PERINATAL DEATH; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENOSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DIGOXIN; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VERAPAMIL;

EID: 0030958174     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: 14219964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000264426     Document Type: Article

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