Dependency of magnetocardiographically determined fetal cardiac time intervals on gestational age, gender and postnatal biometrics in healthy pregnancies

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  van Leeuwen, Peter ^a   Lange, Silke ^a   Klein, Anita ^a   Geue, Daniel ^a   Grönemeyer, Dietrich H W ^b  

^a Res/Devmt Center for Microtherapy   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; BIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART BEAT; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAGNETOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; P WAVE; PR INTERVAL; QRS COMPLEX; QT INTERVAL; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SEX DIFFERENCE; ST SEGMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; T WAVE;

EID: 2642568537     PISSN: 14712393     EISSN: 14712393     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2393-4-6     Document Type: Article

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