Can we suspect fetal Down syndrome by heart evaluation during the second half of pregnancy?

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 143-148

  Respondek Liberska, Maria ^a   Nowicki, Grzegorz ^a   Krasoñ, Aneta ^a   Kaczmarek, Piotr ^a   Kociszewska, Iwona ^a   Danuta, Broniarczyk ^a  

^a POLISH MOTHER S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Fetal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DEVICE; DOWN SYNDROME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS MALFORMATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HUMANS; MATERNAL AGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, SECOND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0033058323     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000020908     Document Type: Article

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