Middle cerebral/umbilical artery resistance index ratio as sensitive parameter for fetal well-being and neonatal outcome in patients with preeclampsia: Case-control study

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 821-825

  Ebrashy, Alaa ^a,c   Azmy, Osama ^b   Ibrahim, Magdy ^a   Waly, Mohamed ^a   Edris, Amira ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^c CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACIDEMIA; APGAR SCORE; ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PH; BLOOD SAMPLING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EGYPT; FETUS WEIGHT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; PREECLAMPSIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UMBILICAL ARTERY; UMBILICAL CORD BLOOD; WELLBEING;

APGAR SCORE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FETAL GROWTH RETARDATION; FETAL HYPOXIA; HUMANS; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 26244442443     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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