The implications for fetal outcome of an abnormal arrangement of the abdominal vessels

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 35-42

  Pasquini, Lucia ^a   Tan, Tony ^a   Ho, Siew Yen ^b   Gardiner, Helena ^a,b  

^a QUEEN CHARLOTTE S AND CHELSEA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abdominal situs; Biliary atresia; Echocardiography; Fetal heart; Isomerism

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; CHILDBIRTH; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAPHRAGM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR VALVE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; ISOMERISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY VEIN MALFORMATION; STOMACH; SURVIVAL; VASCULAR DISEASE; ABDOMEN; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; SITUS INVERSUS; VASCULARIZATION;

ABDOMEN; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; SITUS INVERSUS; STOMACH;

EID: 18244377167     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951105000089     Document Type: Article

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