Venous Doppler ultrasound in 146 fetuses with congenital heart disease

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 345-350

  Gembruch, U ^a   Meise, C ^b   Germer, U ^b   Berg, C ^a   Geipel, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Doppler sonography; Ductus venosus; Fetal heart; Inferior vena cava

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CAVA VEIN; CHROMOSOME; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DUCTUS VENOSUS; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYDROPS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING TEST; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0142042788     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.242     Document Type: Article

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