Echocardiographic assessment of patent ductus arteriosus shunt flow pattern in premature infants

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1997, Pages

  Su, Bai Horng ^b,c   Watanabe, Toyoko ^a   Shimizu, Mitsumasa ^a   Yanagisawa, Masayoshi ^b  

^a Tokyo Metropol Tsukiji Matern H ^*  (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Doppler flow pattern; Echocardiography; Patent ductus arteriosus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOMEGALY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT RIGHT SHUNT; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; LUNG CONGESTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0031410647     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.77.1.F36     Document Type: Article

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