Effect of antenatal administration of thyrotrophin releasing hormone on fetal flow velocity waveforms

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 1997, Pages

  Bajoria, Rekha ^a   Stagiannis, Konstantinos D ^a   Fisk, Nicholas M ^a  

^a QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ductus arteriosus; Fetal Doppler; Fetal middle cerebral artery; Thyrotrophin releasing hormone; Utero placental circulation

Indexed keywords

PROTIRELIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS LUNG MATURATION; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; THYROTROPIN RELEASE; UTERINE ARTERY; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0031429461     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/fn.77.2.F127     Document Type: Article

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