Acute increase in femoral artery resistance in response to direct physical stimuli in the human fetus

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 110, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 916-921

  Smith, Richard P ^a,b   Glover, Vivette ^a   Fisk, Nicholas M ^a,b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNIOCENTESIS; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BLADDER ASPIRATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD; FETUS HYPOXIA; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; SHUNTING; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FETUS; HUMANS; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULSATILE FLOW; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 0141450269     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.2003.02373.x     Document Type: Article

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