Middle cerebral artery velocimetry as a predictor of hypoxemia in fetuses with increased resistance to blood flow in the umbilical artery

Early Human Development

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 177-184

  Dubiel, Mariusz ^a   Gudmundsson, Saemundur ^a   Gunnarsson, Gudmundur ^a   Marsál, Karel ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brain sparing; Cerebro placental ratio; Hypoxemia; Labour; Middle cerebral artery; Operative delivery for fetal distress; Umbilical artery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIASTOLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HYPOXIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREDICTION; PULSATILE FLOW; UMBILICAL ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ANOXEMIA; APGAR SCORE; ASPHYXIA NEONATORUM; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; RHEOLOGY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; UMBILICAL ARTERIES; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0031579265     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(96)01777-X     Document Type: Article

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