Modelling the influence of amnionicity on the severity of twin - Twin transfusion syndrome in monochorionic twin pregnancies

Physics in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  van den Wijngaard, Jeroen P H M ^a   Umur, Asli ^a,c   Ross, Michael G ^b   van Gemert, Martin J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD; DISEASES; DRUG PRODUCTS; PATIENT TREATMENT;

AMNION SEPTUM; DIAMNIOTIC PREGNANCIES;

MEDICINE;

AMNION; AMNION FLUID; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD VOLUME; CHORION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETOPLACENTAL UNIT; HEMODYNAMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OSMOLALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWALLOWING; TWIN PREGNANCY; TWIN TWIN TRANSFUSION SYNDROME; URINE;

AMNION; AMNIOTIC FLUID; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FETAL BLOOD; FETOFETAL TRANSFUSION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; TWINS;

EID: 1642528322     PISSN: 00319155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0031-9155/49/6/N01     Document Type: Article

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