Fetal arrhythmias: Natural history and management

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-6

  Vergani, Patrizia ^a,b   Mariani, Eloisa ^a   Ciriello, Elena ^a   Locatelli, Anna ^a   Strobelt, Nicola ^a   Galli, Mariella ^a   Ghidini, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fetal arrhythmias; Fetal therapy; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

FETAL ARRHYTHMIAS; PRENATAL ULTRASOUND; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA (SVT);

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PATIENT TREATMENT; ULTRASONICS;

FETAL MONITORING;

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; DIGOXIN; PROPAFENONE;

ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NEWBORN; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIA; COHORT STUDIES; DIGOXIN; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL THERAPIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 11844280265     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2004.10.001     Document Type: Article

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