Enhanced Coronary Blood Flow and Abnormal Blood Flow in the Aortic Isthmus in Severe Fetal Anemia

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 157-159

  Ramaswamy, P ^a   Greenstein, G ^a   Friedman, D ^b   Burgess, T ^a   Haberman, S ^a  

^a MAIMONIDES MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary blood flow; Fetal anemia

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA FLOW; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXCHANGE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS HYDROPS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LEVOCARDIA; NEWBORN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADULT; ANEMIA, NEONATAL; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC COARCTATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 1342308275     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-003-0505-4     Document Type: Article

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