Qualitative venous Doppler flow waveform analysis in preterm intrauterine growth-restricted fetuses with ARED flow in the umbilical artery - Correlation with short-term outcome

Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 573-579

  Schwarze, A ^a   Gembruch, U ^b   Krapp, M ^a   Katalinic, A ^a   Germer, U ^a   Axt Fliedner, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Intrauterine growth restriction; Perinatal outcome; Venous Doppler

Indexed keywords

ABSENT OR REVERSED ENDDIASTOLIC FLOW; ACIDEMIA; APGAR SCORE; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DUCTUS VENOSUS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FETUS; FETUS OUTCOME; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN DEATH; PERINATAL DEATH; PERINATAL MORBIDITY; PREDICTION; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STILLBIRTH; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD FLOW; UMBILICAL VEIN; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; WAVEFORM;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL HEART; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 20644459236     PISSN: 09607692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/uog.1914     Document Type: Article

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