Hypoplastic left heart syndrome: Rheumatic heart disease of the fetus?

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 554-565

  Eghtesady, Pirooz ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b MLC 2004 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; HEART ANTIGEN; MATERNAL ANTIBODY;

AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; BLOOD PLACENTA BARRIER; CLINICAL FEATURE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS HEART; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PHARYNGITIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC FEVER; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL HEART; HUMANS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREGNANCY; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SP. 'GROUP A';

EID: 30344487562     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.09.013     Document Type: Article

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