Doppler Echocardiographic Evaluation of Ventricular Diastolic Filling in Fetuses with Ductal Constriction

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 79, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 442-446

  Harada, Kenji ^a   Rice, Mary J ^a   McDonald, Robert W ^a   Shiota, Takahiro ^a   Ishii, Masahiro ^a   Reller, Mark D ^a   Sahn, David J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDOMETACIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS DISEASE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INDOMETHACIN; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 0031568566     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(96)00783-7     Document Type: Article

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