Quantitative assessment of fetal ventricular function: Establishing normal values of the myocardial performance index in the fetus

Echocardiography

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 9-13

  Eidem, Benjamin W ^a   Edwards, Jeanette M ^a   Cetta, Frank ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Doppler echocardiography; Echocardiography; Fetal ventricular function; Myocardial performance index

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART SIZE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; NORMAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035116122     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2001.t01-1-00009.x     Document Type: Article

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