Fetal transesophageal echocardiography utilizing a 10-F, 10-MHz intravascular ultrasound catheter - Comparison with conventional maternal transabdominal fetal echocardiography in sheep

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 939-946

  Kohl, Thomas ^b   Suda, Kenji ^a   Reckers, Julia ^b   Scheld, Hans H ^b   Vogt, J ^b   Silverman, Norman H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fetal cardiac intervention; Fetus; Intravascular ultrasound; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CATHETERS; FETAL MONITORING; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

CARDIAC VALVE DIMENSIONS; FETAL CARDIAC INTERVENTION; FETAL TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND CATHETER; MATERNAL TRANSABDOMINAL FETAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SHEEP;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FETUS HEART; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; PREGNANCY; SHEEP; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0032769994     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(99)00037-X     Document Type: Article

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