Management strategy for fetal tachycardia

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 575-581

  Cuneo, Bettina F ^a   Strasburger, Janette F ^b  

^a ADVOCATE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Department of Internal Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; DIGOXIN; QUINIDINE; VERAPAMIL;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DELIVERY; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS MORTALITY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033826218     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(00)00996-0     Document Type: Article

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