A Puzzling Intrauterine Death: Non-Compaction of the Fetal Ventricular Myocardium Presenting With Reversed End-Diastolic Flow Velocity in the Umbilical Arteries

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 695-698

  Ellis, Cameron ^a   Pymar, Helen ^a   Windrim, Rory ^a   Keating, Sarah ^a   Kingdom, John ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abnormal myocardium; Fetal death; Umbilical artery Doppler

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; FETUS MOVEMENT; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MASS SCREENING; PRENATAL PERIOD; UMBILICAL ARTERY ABSENT OR REVERSED END DIASTOLIC FLOW VELOCITY; UMBILICAL MALFORMATION; VENTRICULAR NONCOMPACTION; AORTA COARCTATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; FETUS DEATH; GENETICS; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE; HEMODYNAMICS; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; UMBILICAL ARTERY;

ADULT; AORTIC COARCTATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; FEMALE; FETAL DEATH; HEART VENTRICLES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; PLACENTAL CIRCULATION; PREGNANCY; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 26944464249     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(16)30548-5     Document Type: Article

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