Pregnancy termination following prenatal diagnosis of serious heart disease in the fetus

Early Human Development

Volumn 73, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 71-78

  Menahem, Samuel ^a,b   Grimwade, James ^a  

^a MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Counselling; Fetal echocardiography; Heart abnormality; Termination of pregnancy

Indexed keywords

AUTOPSY; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASE; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INTELLECTUAL IMPAIRMENT; LUNG ATRESIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE;

EID: 0041926730     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3782(03)00078-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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