Optimal interval between middle cerebral artery velocity measurements when monitoring pregnancies complicated by red cell alloimmunization

Fetal Diagnosis and Therapy

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 22-25

  Bartha, Jose L ^a,b   Abdel Fattah, Sherif A ^a   Hunter, Alyson ^a   Denbow, Mark ^a   Kyle, Phillipa ^a   Soothill, Peter W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

Alloimmunization; Fetal anemia; Fetal Doppler; Intrauterine transfusion; Middle cerebral artery; Rhesus disease

Indexed keywords

ALLOIMMUNIZATION; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS BLOOD SAMPLING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRAUTERINE BLOOD TRANSFUSION; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHESUS INCOMPATIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANEMIA; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREGNANCY; RH ISOIMMUNIZATION; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 29144523594     PISSN: 10153837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000089043     Document Type: Article

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