Changes in umbilical artery, middle cerebral artery, and aorta blood flow Doppler waveform pulsatility indices after funisocentesis

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 359-364

  Chitrit, Yvon ^a,b   Caubel, Patrick ^a   Boulanger, Marie C ^a   Schwinte, Anne L ^a   Baledent, Francoise ^a   Lusina, Daniel ^a   Ter Sakarian, Martine ^a  

^a Centre Hospitalier Robert Ballanger CHRB   (France)

^b HÔPITAL DU BOCAGE   (France)

Author keywords

Doppler ultrasonography; Funisocentesis; Nitric oxide; Pulsatility index

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FETAL MONITORING; HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICAL IMAGING; NITROGEN OXIDES; PULSATILE FLOW;

DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; FUNISOCENTESIS;

ULTRASONIC IMAGING;

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD SAMPLING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PULSATILE FLOW; UMBILICAL ARTERY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0031148914     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/ultra.16.5.359     Document Type: Article

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