Dynamics of the Pulmonary Venous Flow in the Fetus and Its Association with Vascular Diameter

Circulation

Volumn 108, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 2377-2380

  Zielinsky, Paulo ^a   Piccoli Jr , Antônio ^b   Gus, Eduardo ^b   Manica, João Luiz ^b   Satler, Fabíola ^b   Nicoloso, Luiz Henrique ^b   Luchese, Stelamaris ^b   Marcantonio, Silvana ^b   Scheid, Marlui ^b   Hatém, Domingos ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE CARDIOLOGIA DO RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Blood flow; Echocardiography; Fetus; Physiology; Vessels

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS CIRCULATION; FLOW KINETICS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY VEINS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 0242525736     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000093195.73667.52     Document Type: Article

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