Fetal growth restriction and maternal oxygen transport during high altitude pregnancy

High Altitude Medicine and Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 141-156

  Moor, Lorna G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Hemodynamics; Hypoxia; Infant mortality; Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR); Preeclampsia; Uterine artery blood flow; Vascular growth and remodeling

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE ACCLIMATIZATION; ALTITUDE DISEASE; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLOOD VOLUME; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; INFANT MORTALITY; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; NEWBORN MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

ALTITUDE; ANOXIA; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMANS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; OXYGEN; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; REFERENCE VALUES; UTERUS;

EID: 0041629292     PISSN: 15270297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/152702903322022767     Document Type: Article

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