New dimensions and directions in fetal cardiology

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 463-471

  Sklansky, Mark ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fetal cardiology; Fetal echocardiography; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CARDIOLOGY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FETUS; FETUS ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HUMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIAC VOLUME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL HEART; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, HIGH-RISK; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0141450676     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008480-200310000-00003     Document Type: Review

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