Timing of presentation and postnatal outcome of infants suspected of having coarctation of the aorta during fetal life

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1070-1074

  Head, C E G ^b   Jowett, V C ^c   Sharland, G K ^a   Simpson, John M ^a  

^a GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ARCH INTERRUPTION; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FETUS; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; POSTNATAL CARE; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AORTIC COARCTATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 23044509473     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2003.033027     Document Type: Article

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