Aortic pulse waveforms for evaluating cardiac performance in the human fetus

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1245-1250

  Fujita, Yasuyuki ^a   Satoh, Shoji ^b   Koga, Tsuyoshi ^a   Mori, Akira ^c   Nakano, Hitoo ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Cardiac function; Cardiac output; Descending aorta; Echo tracking; Fractional shortening; Human fetus; Preload index; Pulse waveforms; Real time ultrasound

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BLOOD VESSELS; CARDIOLOGY;

CARDIAC DYSFUNCTION;

ULTRASONICS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING AORTA; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; FETUS MONITORING; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DISEASE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART PRELOAD; HUMAN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; PULSE WAVE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

AORTA, THORACIC; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, PULSED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 2242471204     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-5629(02)00609-9     Document Type: Article

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