Successful prenatal treatment of congenital heart block with ritodrine administered transplacentally

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 267, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 51-53

  Matsushita, H ^a   Higashino, M ^a   Sekizuka, N ^a   Kurabayashi, T ^a   Takakuwa, K ^a   Tanaka, K ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congenital heart block; Prenatal diagnosis; Ritodrine

Indexed keywords

RITODRINE; TERBUTALINE; ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; AUTOANTIGEN; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN; SMALL CYTOPLASMIC RNA; SS A ANTIGEN; SS-A ANTIGEN; SSA2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART BLOCK; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; FEMALE; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE CONTRACTION; HUMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROGNOSIS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; HEART BLOCK; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL ARTERY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AUTOANTIGENS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETUS; HEART BLOCK; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS; RITODRINE; RNA, SMALL CYTOPLASMIC; SYMPATHOMIMETICS; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0036834586     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004040100241     Document Type: Article

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