Short-term maternal oxygen administration in fetuses with absence or reversal of end-diastolic velocity in umbilical artery: Pathophysiological and clinical considerations

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 707-711

  Caforio, Leonardo ^a   Caruso, Alessandro ^a   Testa, Antonia Carla ^a   Pompei, Antonella ^a   Ciampelli, Mario ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Absence or reversal of end diastolic flow (AREDV); Doppler velocimetry; Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR); Maternal hyperoxygenation

Indexed keywords

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS CIRCULATION; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MATERNAL CARE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; OXYGEN THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULSE WAVE; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

EID: 0031857035     PISSN: 00016349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/j.1600-0412.1998.770702.x     Document Type: Article

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