Analysis of umbilical artery flow parameters during fetal variable decelerations using computerized Doppler waveforms

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 2-10

  Tadmor, Ofer P ^a   Bocker, Y ^b   Rabinowitz, R ^b   Aboulafia, Y ^b   Yagel, S ^c   Stark, M ^a   Diamant, Y Z ^b   Nitzan, M ^d  

^a Misgav Ladach General Hospital Israel   (Israel)

^b SHAARE ZEDEK MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d JERUSALEM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Dopp er waveforms; Fetal heart rate; Umbilical artery resistance; Variable decelerations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; HUMAN; LABOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UMBILICAL ARTERY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; COMPUTERS; FEMALE; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0032965697     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000020878     Document Type: Article

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